Scripture Readings

• Isaiah 61:1-9
• Composite 24 - Leviticus 26
• Wisdom of Solomon 4:7-15
• 1 Timothy 2:1-7
• Luke 4:16-22
• Colossians 3:12-16
• Matthew 11:27-30
• 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
• Matthew 24:13-28

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Church New Year (Indiction). St. Simeon the Stylite (the Elder) and his mother, Ven. Martha (ca. 428). Martyr Aithalas of Persia (380). Holy Forty Women Martyrs and Martyr Ammon the Deacon, their teacher, at Heraclea in Thrace (4th c.). Martyrs Callista and her brothers, Evodius and Hermogenes, at Nicomedia (309). Righteous Joshua the Son of Nun (16th c. B.C.). Synaxis of the Mother of God in the Miasenga Monastery (commemorating the finding of her Icon there—864). “Chernigov-Gethsemane” Icon of the Mother of God (1869).