19. мај 2025.
Monday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha

No Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)

Scripture Readings

Acts 12.12-17 (Epistle)

12I razmislivši doðe kuæi Marije matere Jovana koji se zvaše Marko, gdje bijahu mnogi sabrani i moljahu se Bogu. 13A kad kucnu Petar u vrata od dvora, pristupi djevojka po imenu Roda, da èuje. 14I poznavši glas Petrov od radosti ne otvori vrata, nego utrèa i kaza da Petar stoji pred vratima. 15A oni joj rekoše: jesi li ti luda? A ona potvrðivaše da je tako. A oni govorahu: anðeo je njegov. 16A Petar jednako kucaše. A kad otvoriše, vidješe ga, i udiviše se. 17A on mahnuvši na njih rukom da æute, kaza im kako ga Gospod izvede iz tamnice; i reèe: javite ovo Jakovu i braæi. I izišavši otide na drugo mjesto.

John 8.42-51 (Gospel)

42A Isus im reèe: kad bi Bog bio vaš otac, ljubili biste mene; jer ja od Boga iziðoh i doðoh; jer ne doðoh sam od sebe, nego me on posla. 43Zašto ne razumijete govora mojega? Jer ne možete rijeèi mojijeh da slušate. 44Vaš je otac ðavo; i slasti oca svojega hoæete da èinite: on je krvnik ljudski od poèetka, i ne stoji na istini; jer nema istine u njemu; kad govori laž, svoje govori: jer je laža i otac laži. 45A meni ne vjerujete, jer ja istinu govorim. 46Koji me od vas kori za grijeh? Ako li istinu govorim, zašto mi vi ne vjerujete? 47Ko je od Boga rijeèi Božije sluša; zato vi ne slušate, jer nijeste od Boga. 48Tada odgovoriše Jevreji i rekoše mu: ne govorimo li mi pravo da si ti Samarjanin, i da je ðavo u tebi. 49Isus odgovori: u meni ðavola nema, nego poštujem oca svojega; a vi mene sramotite. 50A ja ne tražim slave svoje; ima koji traži i sudi. 51Zaista, zaista vam kažem: ko održi rijeè moju neæe vidjeti smrti dovijeka.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)

‘Saint Patrick was Bishop of Prusa, a city in Bythinia (the present-day Brusa or Bursa). Because of his Christian faith, he was brought before Julius (or Julian) the Consul, who in his attempts to persuade Patrick to worship as he himself did, declared that thanks was owed to the gods for providing the hot springs welling up from the earth for the benefit of men. Saint Patrick answered that thanks for this was owed to our Lord Jesus Christ, and explained that when He, Who is God, created the earth, He made it with both fire and water, and the fire under the earth heats the water which wells up, producing hot springs; he then explained that there is another fire, which awaits the ungodly. Because of this, he was cast into the hot springs, but it was the soldiers who cast him in, and not he, who were harmed by the hot water. After this St Patrick was beheaded with the presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyaenus. Most likely this was during the reign of Diocletian (284-305).’ (Great Horologion)