Saints, Feasts, and Readings for 9/21/2015

Saints and Feasts: Apodosis of the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross, St. Quadratus the Apostle, Jonah the Prophet, Isaakios & Meletios, Bishops of Cyprus

Epistle Reading: St. Paul's Letter to the Ephesians 1:22-23; 2:1-3

BRETHREN, God has put all things under his son's feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all. And you he made alive, when you were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Among these we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and so we were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Gospel Reading: Luke 3:19-22

At that time, Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by John for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done, added this to them all, that he shut up John in prison. Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form, as a dove, and a voice came from heaven. "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."