Scripture Readings

• 2 Timothy 3:16-4:4
• Mark 10:2-12

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Repose of St. John of Kronstadt (1908). Hieromartyr Ignatius the God-bearer, Bishop of Antioch (107). Ven. Ignatii (Ignatius), Archimandrite of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—1435). St. Philogonius, Bishop of Antioch (323). St. Daniel II, Archbishop of Serbia (1338).