Gospel Verse John 14:23: Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come to him.Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates the holy abbot Arsenius the Great (354-449). Before he left the world and retired into the desert, he led an innocent and saintly life at the court of Theodosius the Great, who had entrusted him with the care of the education of his children.