Saturday 20th April 2024
Lenten Fast: wine and oil allowed
Today we commemorate:
St. Theodore Trichinas (‘the Hairshirt Wearer’), hermit (400). Apostle Zacchaeus, bishop of Caesarea (1st C). Hieromartyr Anastasius II, patriarch of Antioch (610). SS Athanasius (1380) and Ioasaph (1423) of Meteora, abbots. SS Gregory (593) and Anastasius the Sinaite (599), patriarchs of Antioch.
British Isles and Ireland:
St. Caedwalla, King of Wessex (689).
Hebrews 9:24-28; Mark 8:27-31
Readings in bold type are those appointed by the Typikon for use at the Liturgy
Hebrews 9:24-28
Christ did not enter the Holy Places made by human hands, which are representations of the true ones, but into heaven itself to appear from now on in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor did he offer himself repeatedly in the way that the high priest enters the holy places year by year with blood that is not his own, for that would have required him to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now, once for all at the consummation of the ages, he has been revealed to do away with sin through his sacrifice. And while it is appointed for people to die once, and after that the judgement, so in this way Christ, who has been offered up once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not in connection with sin but for the salvation of those eagerly awaiting him.
Mark 8:27-31
Jesus went out with his disciples into the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he questioned his disciples, asking them, ‘Who do the people say that I am?’ And they replied, ‘John the Baptiser; and others, Elijah; and others again, one of the prophets.’ He asked them, ‘But you, who do you say that I am?’ And Peter replied. He said to him, ‘You are the Christ.’ But he cautioned them not to tell anyone about it. Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.