Scripture Readings

• 2 Timothy 2:1-10
• John 15:17-16:2
• Hebrews 1:1-12
• Mark 2:23-3:5

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

First Saturday of Great Lent — Commemoration of St. Theodore the Recruit and the Miracle of the Boiled Wheat. Nativity of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (ca. 345). Martyr Callinicus of Gangra in Asia Minor (3rd-4th c.). Ven. Constantine and Cosmas, Abbots of Kosinsk (Pskov—13th c.). Virgin Martyr Seraphima (Serapia) of Antioch (2nd c.). Martyr Theodota and her three sons in Bithynia (ca. 304). Martyr Michael (9th c.). Martyr Eustace of Mtskhet in Georgia (589). Martyr Michael “the Black-robed” of St. Savva Monastery (9th c.). Emperor Theodosios the Younger (5th c.).