14 Octombrie 2025
Tuesday of the 19th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsus of Milan (1st c.)
Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer (8th c.)
Saint Nicholas the Pious (Sviatosha), Prince of Chernigov (1143)

Scripture Readings

Philippians 1.8-14 (Epistle)

8Căci martor îmi este Dumnezeu că vă iubesc pe toţi cu o dragoste nespusă, în Isus Hristos. 9Şi mă rog ca dragostea voastră să crească tot mai mult în cunoştinţă şi orice pricepere, 10ca să deosebiţi lucrurile alese, pentru ca să fiţi curaţi şi să nu vă poticniţi până în ziua venirii lui Hristos, 11plini de roada neprihănirii, prin Isus Hristos, spre slava şi lauda lui Dumnezeu. 12Vreau să ştiţi, fraţilor, că împrejurările în care mă găsesc, mai degrabă au lucrat la înaintarea Evangheliei. 13În adevăr, în toată curtea împărătească şi pretutindeni aiurea, toţi ştiu că sunt pus în lanţuri din pricina lui Isus Hristos. 14Şi cei mai mulţi din fraţi, îmbărbătaţi de lanţurile mele, au şi mai multă îndrăzneală să vestească fără teamă Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu.

Luke 8.1-3 (Gospel)

1Curând după aceea, Isus umbla din cetate în cetate şi din sat în sat şi propovăduia şi vestea Evanghelia Împărăţiei lui Dumnezeu. Cei doisprezece erau cu El; 2şi mai erau şi nişte femei care fuseseră tămăduite de duhuri rele şi de boli; Maria, zisă Magdalena, din care ieşiseră şapte draci, 3Ioana, nevasta lui Cuza, ispravnicul lui Irod, Susana şi multe altele care-L ajutau cu ce aveau.

Commemorations

Holy Martyrs Nazarius, Gervasius, Protasius, and Celsus of Milan (1st c.)

These martyrs contested for the faith in Milan, and were beheaded under the Emperor Nero. Many years later, their relics were discovered by St Ambrose through a vision, and were given honorable burial.

Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer (8th c.)

He was from Jerusalem. An orphan, he was adopted into the family of St John of Damascus (commemorated December 4). He became Bishop of Maiuma, a city on the coast of Palestine, which was later named Constantia. Like his adoptive brother he became a noted hymnographer: The Canon of the Cross (Sept. 14) and the Canon for Christ’s Nativity, “Christ is born, give ye glory…” are his compositions.

Saint Nicholas the Pious (Sviatosha), Prince of Chernigov (1143)

He was the first Russian prince to forsake the world and enter monastic life, at the Lavra of the Kiev Caves. Though his brothers according to the flesh tried to turn him back from his chosen path, he embraced monastic life zealously, amazing his fellow-monks by his humility and piety. Despite his rank, he insisted upon being treated like the simplest novice, performing the meanest tasks joyfully. In time his abbot allowed him to withdraw from the common life, living entirely in his cell in constant prayer. He reposed in peace in 1143. A few months later his brother Prince Iziaslav was healed of a grave illness when he put on St Nicholas’ hair shirt and drank some water from the monastery. The Prince asked to be clothed in the hairshirt on the day of his death.