Scripture Readings

• Romans 1:7-12
• Matthew 5:42-48

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Leavetaking of Pentecost. Hieromartyr Timothy, Bishop of Prussa (4th c.). Ven. Silvanus, Schema-monk, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th-14th c.). Finding of the Relics of St. Vasily (Basil), Bishop of Riazan’ (1609). St. John Maximovitch, Metropolitan of Tobol’sk (1715). Martyr Alexander and Virgin Martyr Antonina at Constantinople (ca. 313). St. Kanides the Monk of Cappadocia (460). Ven. Theophanes of Antioch (369). St Bassianus, Bishop of Lodi in Liguria (409). St. Neaniskos the Martyr (284).