Scripture Readings

• Romans 1:7-12
• Matthew 5:42-48

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Leavetaking of Pentecost. St. Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria (444). Ven. Cyril, Igoumen of White Lake (1427). Ven. Alexander, Abbot of Kushta (Vologdá—1439). Five Nuns beheaded in Persia: Martyrs Thecla, Mariamne, Martha, Mary, and Ennatha (346). St. Columba, Enlightener of Scotland (597).