Scripture Readings
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
First Saturday of Great Lent — Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Wheat. Martyr Nikon and 199 disciples with him in Sicily (251). Ven. Nikon, Abbot of the Kiev Caves (1088). Martyrs Philetas the Senator, his wife, Lydia, their sons Macedon and Theoprepius, Chronides the Notary, and Amphilochius the Captain, in Illyria (117-138). Righteous Basil of Mangazea in Siberia (1600). Monastic Martyr Luke of St. Anne’s Skete (Mt. Athos—1802).