Scripture Readings

• 1 Thessalonians 2:9-14
• Luke 13:1-9

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Saint Varnava (Nastic) (1964). St. John the Merciful, Patriarch of Constantinople (612-20). Ven. Nilus the Faster, of Sinai (5th c.). Bl. John “the Hairy”, Fool-for-Christ, in Rostov (1580). Prophet Ahijah (960 BC). Ven. Nilus the Myrrhgusher, of Mt. Athos (1651).