Scripture Readings
Thursday, May 27, 1993
- Isaiah 2:2-3
- Composite 21 - Isaiah 62:10-63:3, 7-9
- Composite 22 - Zechariah 14:1, 4, 8-11
- Mark 16:9-20
- Acts 1:1-12
- Luke 24:36-53
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
The Ascension of our Lord. Hieromartyr Therapon, Bishop of Sardis (3rd c.). Translation of the Relics of Ven. Nilus of Stolobensk (1667). St. John the Russian (Confessor), whose relics are on the Island of Euboia (1730). Ven. Ferapónt (Therapon), Abbot of Belozérsk (1426). Translation of the Relics of Sts. Kiprián, Photii (Photius), and Jonah, Metropolitans of Moscow and All Russia (1472). Ven. Therapon, Abbot of Monza (16th c.). Virgin Martyr Theodora and Martyr Didymus the Soldier, of Alexandria (304).