Scripture Readings

• 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
• Luke 15:1-10

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias, Samonas, and Habibus, of Edessa (299-306). Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius, who suffered under Julian the Apostate (4th c.). Martyr Dēmḗtrios of Thrace (ca. 307). Ven. Paísii (Paisius) Velichkovsky (1794). “Fragrant Flower” Icon of the Mother of God.