Scripture Readings

• Wisdom of Solomon 5:15-6:3
• Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9
• Wisdom of Solomon 4:7-15
• Matthew 4:25-5:12
• 2 Corinthians 4:6-15
• Luke 6:17-23
• Ephesians 6:18-24
• Luke 6:17-23

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Ven. Chariton the Confessor, Abbot of Palestine (ca. 350). Synaxis of the Saints of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves). Ven. Kharitón of Syanzhémsk (Vologdá—1509). Ven. Herodion, Abbot, of Iloezérsk (1541). Prophet Baruch (6th c. B.C.). Martyrs Alexander, Alphius, Zosimas, Mark, Nicon, Neon, Heliodorus, and 24 others in Pisidia and Phrygia (4th c.). Martyrdom of St. Wenceslaus (Viachesláv), Prince of the Czechs (935). Schema-monk Cyril and Schema-nun Maria, the parents of Saint Sergius of Radonezh (parents of Ven. Sergius of Rádonezh).