Scripture Readings
Friday, May 7, 2021
- Composite 2 - Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Composite 4 - Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9
- Composite 5 - Wisdom of Solomon 4, 6, 7, 2
- John 10:9-16
- Galatians 1:11-19
- John 10:1-9
- Philippians 2:5-11
- Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28
- Acts 3:1-8
- John 2:12-22
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Bright Friday — The “Lifegiving Fountain” Icon of the Most-holy Theotokos. — Appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Footprint” at Pochaev. Repose of St. Alexis Toth, Confessor and Defender of Orthodoxy in America (1909). Commemoration of the Appearance of the Sign of the Precious Cross over Jerusalem in 351 AD. Martyr Acacius the Centurion at Byzantium (303). Repose of Ven. Nilus, Abbot of Sora (1508). St. John of Zaden in Georgia, and 12 disciples: Ss. Shio, David, Anthony, Thaddæus, Stephen, Isidore, Michael, Pyrrhus, Zeno, Jesse, Joseph, and Abibus (6th c.). Ven. Nilus the Myrrhgusher of Lavra (Mt. Athos—1651). Monastic Martyr Pachomius (Mt. Athos—1730). The “ZHIROVITSKAYA” Icon of the Mother of God (1470).