June 8

BIBLICAL READINGS

Ger 9:23-24; 2 Cor 4:1-10; Mt 24:42-46

 

THE CHURCHES REMEMBER...

ANGLICANS:
Thomas Ken, bishop of Bath and Wells, nonjuror, hymn writer

COPTS AND ETHIOPIANS (1 ba'unah/sane):
Carpus (1st cent.), one of the 70 disciples (Coptic Church)

LUTHERANS:
August Hermann Francke (d. 1727), theologian at Halle
Hermann Bezzel (d. 1917), theologian in Bavaria

MARONITES:
Finding of the nails of Christ 

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS AND GREEK CATHOLICS:
Removal of the relics of Theodore the Stratilate, megalomartyr
Marcian, Nicander and companions of Durostorum (4th cent.), martyrs (Romanian Church)