Scripture Readings

• Acts 23:1-11
• John 16:15-23

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Afterfeast of Ascension. Translation of the Relics of the Greatmartyr Theodore Stratelates (319). St. Theodore, first Bishop of Rostov and Suzdal’ (1023). Finding of the Relics of Ss. Basil and Constantine, Princes of Yaroslavl (13th c.). St. Ephraim, Patriarch of Antioch (545). Ven. Zosimas of Phœnicia (Syria—6th c.).