Scripture Readings

• 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
• Luke 20:1-8

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Greatmartyr James the Persian (421). Ven. Palladius of Thessalonica (6th-7th c.). St. Jacob the Wonderworker, Bishop of Rostov (1392). Uncovering of the Relics of St. Vsévolod (Gabriel) of Pskov (1192). Seventeen Monastic Martyrs in India (4th c.). St. Romanus the Wonderworker (5th c.). Repose of Ven. Diodorus, Igoumen of George Hill (Solovétsky Monastery—1633). Commemoration of the Weeping Icon of the Mother of God, called “ZNAMENIYE” (“THE SIGN”) at Novgorod in 1170, and the other Icons of the Mother of God, “OF THE SIGN”: the “KURSK-ROOT” (1295), “ABALATSKAYA” (1637), and others.