Scripture Readings

• Jeremiah 11:18-12:5, 9-11, 14-15
• Exodus 19:10-19
• Job 38:1-23; 42:1-5
• Isaiah 50:4-11
• Luke 22:1-39
• 1 Corinthians 11:23-32
• Matt. 26:2-20; John 13:3-17; Matt. 26:21-39; Luke 22:43-45; Matt. 26:40-27:2
• John 13:1-11
• John 13:12-17

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Great and Holy Thursday. Martyr Savva Stratelates (“the General”) of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him (272). Ven. Savva and Aleksy the Recluse, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—13th c.). Martyrs Valentine and Pasikrates in Moesia, Bulgaria (228). Martyrs Eusebius, Neon, Leontius, Longinus, and others, at Nicomedia (303). Ven. Thomas the Fool, of Syria (6th c.). St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker of Constantinople (6th-8th c.). Ss. Iorest (1678) and Savva Brancovici (1683), Metropolitans of Ardeal and Confessors (Romania). Hieromartyr and Confessor Elijah (Ilie) the Wallachian (1657).