Scripture Readings

• Isaiah 8:13-9:7
• Genesis 6:9-22
• Proverbs 8:1-21

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Hieromartyr Mark, Bishop of Arethusa, Martyr Cyril the Deacon, of Heliopolis, and others who suffered under Julian the Apostate (ca. 364). Ven. John, Anchorite, of Egypt (4th c.). St. Eustathius the Confessor, Bishop of Bithynia (9th c.). St. Nikḗtas of the Roslavl Forests (Russia—1793).