Scripture Readings

• John 13:31-18:1
• John 18:1-28
• Matthew 26:57-75
• John 18:28-19:16
• Matthew 27:3-32
• Mark 15:16-32
• Matthew 27:33-54
• Luke 23:32-49
• John 19:25-37
• Mark 15:43-47
• John 19:38-42
• Matthew 27:62-66
• Zechariah 11:10-13
• Galatians 6:14-18
• Matthew 27:1-56
• Isaiah 50:4-11
• Romans 5:6-11
• Mark 15:16-41
• Isaiah 52:13-54:1
• Amos 8:9-12
• Hebrews 2:11-18
• Luke 23:32-49
• Jeremiah 11:18-12:5, 9:11, 14-15
• Hebrews 10:19-31
• John 18:28-19:37
• Exodus 33:11-23
• Job 42:12-17 LXX
• Isaiah 52:13-54:1
• 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:2
• Matt. 27:1-38; Luke 23:39-43; Matt. 27:39-54; John 19:31-37; Matt. 27:55-61

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Great and Holy Friday. Hieromartyr Gorazd, Bishop of Bohemia and Moravia-Silesia (Serbian—1942 (1942). Hieromartyr Babylas (Vavíla), Bishop of Antioch, and with him Martyrs Urban, Prilidian, and Epolonius; and their mother, Christodula (251). Holy Prophet and Godseer Moses (16th c. B.C.). Uncovering of the Relics of St. Joasáph, Bishop of Bélgorod (1911). Martyr Hermione, daughter of St. Philip the Deacon (ca. 117). Martyr Babylas of Nicomedia, and with him 84 children (4th c.). Martyrs Theodore, Mianus (Ammianus), Julian, Kion (Oceanus), and Centurionus, of Nicomedia (305-311). “Unburnt Bush” Icon of the Mother of God (1680).