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Wednesday, 3 April 1557

Apr 3

Wednesday

April 1557

Great Lent · Wine & oil allowed Tone 3 5th Week of Great Lent · 15 days until Pascha (April 18)

Saints of the day

Joseph The Hymnographer Martyrs Elpidephorus Dius Bithonius And Galycus 3rd C St Nicetas The Confessor St Paul The Wretched The Holy Martyr Ulphianus Venerable Illyricus Of Mt Myrsinon In The Peloponnesus Venerable Nectarius Abbot Of Bezhetsk 1492

Readings

Epistle

Heb 9:24-28— 5th Saturday of Lent

Heb 9:1-7— Theotokos

Gospel

Mrk 8:27-31— 5th Saturday of Lent

Luk 10:38-42, 11:27-28— Theotokos

Source: Orthocal — Byzantine lectionary tables