Cross: 1 Cor., 125th chapter, I, 18-24.
In., 60 credits, XIX, 6-11, 13-20, 25-28, 30-35.
Martyrs: Heb., 330th section, XI, 33-XII, 2.
Matt., 38 zach., X, 32-36; XI, 1.
On water sanctification: Heb., 306 credits, II, 11-18.
John, 14th section, V, 1-4.
At matins, after the Great Doxology, the Cross is brought out and venerated according to the rite of the Week of the Veneration of the Cross.
The minor blessing of water is performed.
☦️ Procession of the Honorable Wood of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.
☦️ Feast of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos (1164).
☦️ Seven martyrs. Maccabees: Abima, Antonina, Guria, Eleazar, Evsebo, Alim and Marcellus, their mothers martyrs. Solomonia and their teacher martyr. Eleazar (166 BC).
☦️ Uncovering of the relics of St. Sophia of Suzdal (1995).
☦️ Mchch. in Perga Pamphylia: Leontia, Attia, Alexandra, Kindea, Minsithea, Kyriakos, Mineon, Katuna and Eucleia (III).
☦️ Hieromartyr Demetrius of Pavloch, Prelate (1937).
