Scripture Readings

• Ezekiel 37:1-14
• 1 Corinthians 5:6-8; Galatians 3:13-14
• Matthew 27:62-66
• 3[1] Kings 8:22-23, 27-30
• Proverbs 3:19-34
• Proverbs 9:1-11
• Genesis 1:1-13
• Isaiah 60:1-16
• Exodus 12:1-11
• Jonah 1:1-4:11
• Joshua 5:10-15
• Exodus 13:20-15:19
• Zephaniah 3:8-15
• 3[1] Kings 17:8-24
• Isaiah 61:10-62:5
• Genesis 22:1-18
• Isaiah 61:1-9
• 4[2] Kings 4:8-37
• Isaiah 63:11-64:5
• Jeremiah 31:31-34
• Daniel 3:1-23; Song of the Three: 1-66 with verses
• Hebrews 3:1-4
• Matthew 16:13-18
• 1 Corinthians 2:6-9
• Matthew 10:37-11:1
• Romans 6:3-11
• Matthew 28:1-20

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Great and Holy Saturday. Forefeast of the Elevation of the Cross. Commemoration of the Founding of the Church of the Resurrection (Holy Sepulcher) at Jerusalem (335). Saturday before Elevation. Hieromartyr Cornelius the Centurion (1st c.). Martyrs Chronides, Leontius and Serapion, of Alexandria (237). Martyrs Macrobius and Gordian at Tomi in Romania (4th c.). Hieromartyr Julian of Galatia (4th c.). St. Peter of Atroë (9th c.). Greatmartyr Ketevan, Queen of Georgia (1624). Ven. Hierotheus the Younger of Ivḗron (Mt. Athos—1745).