Scripture Readings
Sunday, March 16, 2003
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 5. Sunday of Orthodoxy. Martyr Sabinas of Egypt (287). Martyr Papas of Lyconia (305-311). St. Serapion, Archbishop of Novgorod (1516). Apostle Aristobulus of the Seventy, Bishop of Britain (1st c.). Hieromartyr Alexander, Pope of Rome (119). Martyr Julian of Anazarbus (3rd c.). Hieromartyrs Trophimus and Thalus of Laodicea (ca. 300).