Orthodox Calendar

31. мај 2025.
Saturday of the 6th Sunday of Pascha

No Fast

Commemorations

  • Apostle Hermas of the Seventy

Scripture Readings

Acts 20.7-12 (Epistle)

7A u prvi dan nedjelje, kad se sabraše uèenici da lome hljeb, govoraše im Pavle, jer šæaše sjutradan da poðe, i proteže besjedu do ponoæi. 8I bijahu mnoge svijeæe gore u sobi gdje se bijasmo sabrali. 9A sjeðaše na prozoru jedno momèe, po imenu Evtih, nadvladano od tvrdoga sna, i kad Pavle govoraše mnogo, naže se u snu i pade dolje s treæega poda, i digoše ga mrtva. 10A Pavle sišavši pade na nj, i zagrlivši ga reèe: ne bunite se, jer je duša njegova u njemu. 11Onda iziðe gore, i prelomivši hljeb okusi, i dovoljno govori do same zore, i tako otide. 12A momèe dovedoše živo, i utješiše se ne malo.

John 14.10-21 (Gospel)

10Zar ne vjeruješ da sam ja u ocu i otac u meni? Rijeèi koje vam ja govorim ne govorim od sebe; nego otac koji stoji u meni on tvori djela. 11Vjerujte meni da sam ja u ocu i otac u meni; ako li meni ne vjerujete, vjerujte mi po tijem djelima. 12Zaista, zaista vam kažem: koji vjeruje mene, djela koja ja tvorim i on æe tvoriti, i veæa æe od ovijeh tvoriti: jer ja idem k ocu svojemu; 13I šta god zaištete u oca u ime moje, ono æu vam uèiniti, da se proslavi otac u sinu. 14I ako što zaištete u ime moje, ja æu uèiniti. 15Ako imate ljubav k meni, zapovijesti moje držite. 16I ja æu umoliti oca, i daæe vam drugoga utješitelja da bude s vama vavijek: 17Duha istine, kojega svijet ne može primiti, jer ga ne vidi niti ga poznaje; a vi ga poznajete, jer u vama stoji, i u vama æe biti. 18Neæu vas ostaviti sirotne; doæi æu k vama. 19Još malo i svijet mene više neæe vidjeti; a vi æete me vidjeti; jer ja živim, i vi æete življeti. 20U onaj æete vi dan doznati da sam ja u ocu svojemu, i vi u meni, i ja u vama. 21Ko ima zapovijesti moje i drži ih on je onaj što ima ljubav k meni; a koji ima ljubav k meni imaæe k njemu ljubav otac moj; i ja æu imati ljubav k njemu, i javiæu mu se sam.

Commemorations

Apostle Hermas of the Seventy

He is mentioned in the Epistles of St Paul (Romans 16:14). He served as a bishop in the first-century Church, and died a martyr. His book, The Shepherd, is one of the earliest Christian writings outside of the New Testament, and was held in such esteem by the early Church that it is sometimes found in ancient collections of the Holy Scriptures.

Hermas had been a wealthy man, but had fallen into poverty through his sins. A man, clad all in white and holding a staff, appeared to St Hermas and, telling him that he was an angel of repentance, gave St Hermas twelve commandments:

  • To believe in God
  • To live in simplicity and innocence
  • To love truth and flee from falsehood
  • To guard his thoughts in chastity
  • To learn patience and magnanimity of soul
  • To know that a good and an evil spirit attend every man
  • To fear God, but not the devil
  • To perform every good deed and to restrain himself from every evil one
  • To pray to God in faith from the depths of his heart, so that his prayer might be heard
  • To preserve himself from melancholy, the daughter of doubt, and from anger
  • To try true and false prophecies
  • To preserve himself from every evil desire.