Scripture Readings

• 2 Timothy 3:16-4:4
• Mark 12:18-27

Today’s commemorated feasts and saints

Leavetaking of the Nativity. “Unfading Flower” Icon of the Mother of God at Ardatov. Ven. Melania the Younger of Rome (439). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Bisericani (Romanian—160). Ven. Chiriacos (Kyriakis) of Tazlau (Romanian—1660).