Scripture Readings

• Hebrews 9:1-7
• Luke 10:38-42; 11:27-28
• Hebrews 9:24-28
• Mark 8:27-31

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Fifth Saturday of Lent — Saturday of the Akathist to the Most-holy Theotokos. St. Basil the Confessor, Bishop of Parium (8th c.). Hieromartyr Zeno, Bishop of Verona (ca. 260). Ven. Isaac the Syrian, Abbot of Spoleto (550). Monastic Martyrs Menas, David, and John, of Palestine (7th c.). Venerable Anthusa of Constantinople (801). Ven. Athanasia, Abbess, of Aegina (860). Ven. Acacius the Younger, of Kavsokalyvia (Mt. Athos—1730). Transfer of the Holy Zone of Theotokos to Constantinople (942).