Scripture Readings
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
SUNDAY OF THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE — Tone 5. Beginning of the Lenten Triodion. Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro (Recruit) (“the Recruit”—ca. 306). Hieromartyr Germogén (Hermogenes), Patriarch of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia (1612). Ven. Theodore the Silent, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th c.). St. Mariamne, sister of Apostle Philip (1st c.). Uncovering of the Relics of Martyr Menas of Alexandria (867-869). Weeping “Tikhvin” Icon of the Mother of God on Mount Athos.