Scripture Readings

• 2 Timothy 2:1-10
• John 15:17-16:2
• Hebrews 1:1-12
• Mark 2:23-3:5

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

First Saturday of Great Lent — Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Wheat. Repose of St. Nikolai of Zhicha (1956). St. Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem (386). Martyrs Trophimus and Eucarpus of Nicomedia (ca. 300). Ven. Aninas of the Euphrates.