Scripture Readings
Sunday, April 24, 2016
- Genesis 49:1-2,8-12
- Zephaniah 3:14-19
- Zechariah 9:9-15
- Matthew 21:1-11, 15-17
- Philippians 4:4-9
- John 12:1-18
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
ENTRY OF OUR LORD INTO JERUSALEM. Palm Sunday. 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).