Scripture Readings
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
20th SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST — Tone 3. Saint Averkios the Wonderworker, Bishop of Hieropolis, Equal of the Apostles (ca. 167). The Holy Seven Youths (“Seven Sleepers”) of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antonius (ca. 250). Martyrs Alexander the Bishop, Heraclius, Anna, Elizabeth, Theodota, and Glyceria (Glykéria), at Adrianopolis (2nd-3rd c.). The “KAZAN” Icon of the Mother of God (commemorating the deliverance of Moscow and Russia from the Poles in 1612.