Scripture Readings

• Ephesians 5:1-8
• Luke 14:1-11

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Ven. Ephraim the Syrian (373-379). Ven. Theodosius, Abbot, of Tot’ma (Vologdá—1568). Ven. Efrem (Ephraim) the Wonderworker, Abbot of Novotórzhsk (1053). St. Efrem, Bishop of Pereyaslavl’ (Kiev Caves—ca. 1098). Ven. Palladius the Hermit, of Antioch (4th c.). St. Isaac the Syrian, Bishop of Nineveh (7th c.).