Scripture Readings

• Romans 1:7-12
• Matthew 5:42-48

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Leavetaking of Pentecost. St. Sampson the Hospitable of Constantinople (ca. 530). St. Joanna the Myrrhbearer (1st c.). Ven. Serapion of Kozheyezérsk (1611). St. Severus, Presbyter, of Interocrea, Italy (6th c.). Ven. George of Mt. Athos (Georgian—1066).