Scripture Readings
Sunday, August 21, 20242
Today’s commemorated feasts and saints
THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT — Tone 3. Veneration of the Cross. Afterfeast of the Dormition. Apostle Thaddæus of the Seventy (ca. 44). Martyr Bassa of Edessa and her sons Theogonius, Agapius, and Pistus (2nd c.). Ven. Abramius the Wonderworker, Archimandrite of Smolensk, and his disciple, Ven. Ephraim (13th c.). Ven. Abramius the Lover-of-Labor, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—12th-13th c.). Venerable Schema-nun Martha of Diveyevo.