Scripture Readings
Sunday, March 31, 2019
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 3. Veneration of the Cross. Repose of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to the Americas (1879). St. Hypatius the Wonderworker, Bishop of Gangra (ca. 336). Repose of St. Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia (1461). Ven. Hypatius the Healer, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—14th c.). Ven. Apollonius, Ascetic, of Egypt (4th c.). Hieromartyr Avdas, Bishop of Persia, and Martyr Benjamin the Deacon (418-424). Ven. Hypatius, Abbot of Rufinus in Chalcedon (ca. 446). Appearance of the “Ivḗron” (Iberian) Icon of the Mother of God. (Note: The service for St Innocent is transferred to April 1.)