Scripture Readings

• 1 Timothy 6:11-16
• 1 Timothy 3:14-4:5
• Matthew 12:15-21
• Matthew 3:1-11
• Ephesians 2:11-13
• Luke 17:3-10

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Leavetaking of the Nativity. Saturday after the Nativity/Saturday before Theophany. “Unfading Flower” Icon of the Mother of God at Ardatov. Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome (439). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Bisericani (Romanian—160). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Tazlau (Romanian—1660).