Scripture Readings
Sunday, January 31, 1999
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
SUNDAY OF THE PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE — Tone 1. Beginning of the Lenten Triodion. Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenaries Cyrus and John, and with them Martyrs Athanasia and her daughters: Theoctiste, Theodotia, and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt (311). Ven. Niketas of the Kiev Caves, Bishop of Novgorod (1108). Martyrs Victorinus, Victor, Nikēphóros, Claudius, Diodorus, Serapion, and Papias, of Egypt (251). Martyr Tryphaίnē at Cyzicus. St. Arsenios of Paros (1877). Saint Julius of Aegina (330).