Scripture Readings

• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
• John 5:24-30
• 1 Corinthians 10:23-28
• Luke 21:8-9, 25-27, 33-36

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

— Saturday of Meatfare Week — Memorial Saturday. Hieromartyr Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (167). Ven. Polycarp of Briansk (1620-1621). Ven. John, Antiochus, Antoninus, Moses, Zebinas, Polychronius, Moses, and Damian, Ascetics, of the Syrian deserts (5th c.). Ven. Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the “Unsleeping Ones” (ca. 430). Ven. Damian of Esphigmenou (Mt. Athos—1280). Monastic Martyr Damian of Philotheou (1568). St. Gorgonia, Sister of St. Gregory the Theologian (370).