Scripture Readings

• John 20:19-25
• Matthew 28:1-20
• Mark 16:1-8
• Luke 24:1-12
• John 20:1-10
• Luke 24:36-53
• Acts 1:12-17, 21-26
• John 1:18-28

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Bright Monday. Icon of the Mother of God of Mt. Athos, “Sweet Kissing"”. Martyr Savva Stratelates (“the General”) of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272). Ven. Savva and Aleksy the Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—13th c.). Martyrs Valentine and Pasikrates in Moesia, Bulgaria (228). Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others, at Nicomedia (303). Ven. Thomas the Fool, of Syria (6th c.). St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople (6th-8th c.). Ss. Iorest (1678) and Savva Brancovici (1683), Metropolitans of Ardeal and Confessors (Romania). Hieromartyr and Confessor Elijah (Ilie) the Wallachian (1657).