Scripture Readings

Friday, October 11, 20244

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Leavetaking of the Ascension. Ven. Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople (1379). Holy Apostle Philip of the Seventy, one of the Seven Deacons (1st c.). St. Theophanes the Confessor and Hymnographer, Bishop of Nicæa (ca. 850). Ven. Theophanes, Faster, of the Kiev Caves (Near Caves—12th c.). Ven. Leo of Optina (1841). Synaxis of the Optina elders. Virgin Martyrs Zenaΐda and Philonίlla, of Tarsus in Cilicia (1st c.).