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. Martyr Conon of Isauria (1st c.). Finding of the Relics of Rt. Blv. Theodore, Prince of Smolensk and Yaroslavl’, and his children Ss. David and Constantine, Wonderworkers of Yaroslavl’ (1463). Monastic Martyr Adrian of Poshekhónsk (Yaroslavl’—1550). Martyr Onesimus of Isauria (1st c.). Martyr Conon the Gardener, of Pamphylia (3rd c.). Virgin Martyr Irais (Raíssa) of Antinoë in Egypt (ca. 308). Martyr Eulogius, of Palestine. Martyr Eulampius, of Palestine. St. Mark the Faster, of Egypt (5th c.). St. Hesychius the Faster, of Bithynia (ca. 790).