7. новембар 2025.
Friday of the 22nd week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)
Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

Scripture Readings

Colossians 4.10-18 (Epistle)

10Pozdravlja vas Aristarh, koji je sa mnom u sužanjstvu, i Marko neæak Varnavin, za kojega primiste zapovijesti ako doðe k vama, primite ga 11I Isus prozvani Just, koji su iz obrezanja. Ovo su jedini moji pomagaèi u carstvu Božijemu koji mi biše utjeha. 12Pozdravlja vas Epafras, koji je od vas, sluga Isusa Hrista; on se jednako trudi za vas u molitvama da budete savršeni i ispunjeni svakom voljom Božijom. 13Jer ja svjedoèim za njega da ima veliku revnost i brigu za vas i za one koji su u Laodikiji i u Jerapolju. 14Pozdravlja vas Luka ljekar ljubazni, i Dimas. 15Pozdravite braæu u Laodikiji, i Nimfana i domašnju crkvu njegovu. 16I kad se ova poslanica proèita kod vas, uèinite da se proèita i u Laodikijskoj crkvi, i onu što je pisana u Laodikiju da i vi proèitate. 17I kažite Arhipu: gledaj na službu koju si primio u Gospodu da je dovršiš. 18Pozdrav mojom rukom Pavlovom. Opominjite se mojijeh okova. Blagodat sa svima vama. Amin.

Luke 12.2-12 (Gospel)

2Jer ništa nije sakriveno što se neæe otkriti, ni tajno što se neæe doznati; 3Jer što u mraku rekoste, èuæe se na vidjelu; i što na uho šaptaste u klijetima, propovijedaæe se na krovovima. 4Ali vam kažem, prijateljima svojijem: ne bojte se od onijeh koji ubijaju tijelo i potom ne mogu ništa više uèiniti. 5Nego æu vam kazati koga da se bojite: bojte se onoga koji ima vlast pošto ubije baciti u pakao; da, kažem vam, onoga se bojte. 6Ne prodaje li se pet vrabaca za dva dinara? i nijedan od njih nije zaboravljen pred Bogom. 7A u vas je i kosa na glavi izbrojena. Ne bojte se dakle; vi ste bolji od mnogo vrabaca. 8Nego vam kažem: koji god prizna mene pred ljudima priznaæe i sin èovjeèij njega pred anðelima Božijim; 9A koji se odreèe mene pred ljudima njega æe se odreæi pred anðelima Božijim. 10I svaki koji reèe rijeè na sina èovjeèijega oprostiæe mu se, a koji huli na svetoga Duha neæe mu se oprostiti. 11A kad vas dovedu u zbornice i na sudove i pred poglavare, ne brinite se kako æete ili šta odgovoriti, ili šta æete kazati; 12Jer æe vas sveti Duh nauèiti u onaj èas šta treba reæi.

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)

Hieron was a farmer from Tyana in Cappadocia, known for his great bodily strength as well as purity of soul. Hearing of his prowess, imperial soldiers came to draft him into the army. Knowing that he would be required to make sacrifice to the idols, Hieron drove them off with only a wooden stave, then hid in the wilderness. Later, however, he went to the Governor voluntarily and openly confessed his faith in Christ. For this his right hand was cut off and he was imprisoned with thirty-two other believers. As they awaited their end, Hieron strengthened the others in the Faith. All were beheaded together outside Melitene in Armenia.

Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

He was born in Northubria in England around 638. At the age of seven he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24), the abbot. At the age of twenty he traveled to Ireland to live among the holy monks of that land; he spent twelve years there as the spiritual child of St Egbert (also April 24). In 690 St Egbert sent Willibrord as head of a company of twelve monks to take the Gospel to the pagan lands around Frisia. The holy missionary first went to Rome to receive the blessing of Pope Sergius, then with his fellow-monks preached the Gospel throughout Holland and Zealand. In 695 Pope Sergius consecrated Willibrord Archbishop of Utrecht, instructing him to organize the Church throughout that area. As Archbishop, Willibrord continued to labor tirelessly for the spread of the Gospel in those pagan lands; his missionary travels took him as far as Denmark. He reposed in peace in 739 at Echternach Monastery (located in present-day in Luxembourg), having served for forty-four years as a bishop and for most of his life as a monastic. His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage.