Scripture Readings
Sunday, April 16, 2000
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 5. St Mary of Egypt. Virgin Martyrs Agape, Irene and Chionia, in Illyria (304). Martyrs Leonidas, Chariessa, Nice (Nika, Victoria), Galina, Kalista (Kalisa), Nunechia, Basilissa, Theodora, and Irene, of Corinth (258). Monastic Martyr Christopher of Dionysiou (Mt. Athos—1818). Hieromartyr Nikḗtas. The Weeping “IL’INSKO-CHERNIGOV” (1658) and the TAMBOV Icons of the Mother of God (1658).