Scripture Readings
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ. Saturday before the Nativity. Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompeius, Agathopus, Basilides, and Evaristus (3rd c.). Repose of St. Theoktistos, Archbishop of Novgorod (1310). St. Niphon, Bishop of Constantia, Cyprus (4th c.). St. Paul, Bishop of Neo-Cæsarea (4th c.).