Scripture Readings

• Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-5, 47-60
• Matthew 21:33-42
• Hebrews 4:1-13
• Mark 11:11-23

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity. Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (34). Ven. Theodore Graptus (“the Branded”), Confessor and brother of St.Theophanes the Hymnographer (ca. 840). St. Theodore, Archbishop of Constantinople (ca. 686).