Scripture Readings

• Colossians 4:10-18
• Luke 19:12-28

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Afterfeast of the Entry Into the Temple. Apostles of the Seventy Philemon and Archippus, Martyr Apphia, wife of Philemon and Equal-to-the-Apostles, and Onesimus, disciple of St. Paul (1st c.). Martyrdom of St. Michael, Prince of Tver’ (1318). Rt. Blv. Yaropolk, in Baptism Peter, Prince of Vladimir in Volyn’ (1086). Virgin Martyr Cecilia and the Holy Martyrs Valerian, Tiburtius and Maximus at Rome (ca. 230). Martyr Procopius the Reader, at Cæsarea in Palestine (303). Martyr Menignus at Parium (250). St. Agabbas of Syria (5th c.). Righteous Michael the Soldier, of Bulgaria (866). St Kallistos II, Patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos—1363).