Scripture Readings

• 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
• Luke 11:42-46

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Martyrs Terence, Pompeius, Africanus, Maximus, Zeno, Alexander, Theodore, Macarius, and 33 others, beheaded at Carthage (3rd c.). Martyrs James (Jacob) the Presbyter, and Azadanes and Abdicius—Deacons, of Persia (ca. 380). Hieromartyr Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople.