Scripture Readings

• Genesis 28:10-17
• Ezekiel 43:27-44:4
• Proverbs 9:1-11
• 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. Forefeast of the Annunciation. Ven. Zachariah the Recluse. St. Artemius (Artemon), Bishop of Seleucia (1st-2nd c.). Ven. Zachariah, Ascetic, of the Kiev Caves (Far Caves—13th-14th c.). Martyrs Stephen and Peter of Kazan’ (1552).