Orthodox Calendar

14. јун 2025.
Saturday of the 1st week after Pentecost

No Fast

Feasts

  • Leavetaking of Pentecost

Commemorations

  • Holy Prophet Elisha (Elisseus) (10th c. BC)
  • St Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (847)
  • St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaïta(1100)

Scripture Readings

Romans 1.7-12 (Epistle)

7Svima koji su u Rimu, ljubaznima Bogu, i pozvanima svetima: blagodat vam i mir od Boga oca našega i Gospoda Isusa Hrista. 8Prvo dakle zahvaljujem Bogu svojemu kroz Isusa Hrista za sve vas što se vjera vaša glasi po svemu svijetu. 9Jer mi je svjedok Bog, kojemu služim duhom svojijem u jevanðelju sina njegova, da vas se opominjem bez prestanka, 10Moleæi se svagda Bogu u molitvama svojijem da bi mi kad Božija volja pomogla da doðem k vama; 11Jer želim vidjeti vas, da vam dam kakav duhovni dar za vaše utvrðenje, 12To jest, da se s vama utješim vjerom opštom, i vašom i mojom.

Matthew 5.42-48 (Gospel)

42Koji ište u tebe, podaj mu; i koji hoæe da mu uzajmiš, ne odreci mu. 43Èuli ste da je kazano: ljubi bližnjega svojega, i mrzi na neprijatelja svojega. 44A ja vam kažem: ljubite neprijatelje svoje, blagosiljajte one koji vas kunu, èinite dobro onima koji na vas mrze i molite se Bogu za one koji vas gone; 45Da budete sinovi oca svojega koji je na nebesima; jer on zapovijeda svome suncu, te obasjava i zle i dobre, i daje dažd pravednima i nepravednima. 46Jer ako ljubite one koji vas ljube, kakovu platu imate? Ne èine li to i carinici? 47I ako Boga nazivate samo svojoj braæi, šta odviše èinite? Ne èine li tako i neznabošci? 48Budite vi dakle savršeni, kao što je savršen otac vaš nebeski.

Commemorations

Holy Prophet Elisha (Elisseus) (10th c. BC)

The disciple and spiritual heir of the Prophet Elijah (July 20), his story can be found in II Kings. Unlike most of the Old Testament prophets, he was granted the gift of working many miracles. He reposed in peace at a great age. The Fathers tell us that he was anointed by Elijah in the year 908 BC and reposed in peace at a great age in 839 BC. He was buried in Samaria. Even after his death, miracles of wonderworking were performed through his relics.

St Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (847)

He was born to wealthy parents in Syracuse of Sicily. He entered monastic life and in time became a priest in the service of Patriarch Nikephoros. Because of his great and well-known zeal for the holy icons, he was cruelly persecuted by a succession of iconoclast emperors. Around 815, he was sent as an ambassador to Rome on behalf of the Patriarch, who had been exiled by the Emperor Leo the Armenian. When he returned to Constantinople upon Leo’s death, he was immediately exiled and imprisoned by Leo’s successor, Michael the Stutterer. Upon Michael’s death he was freed for a short time, but soon the Emperor Theophilus had him exiled to an island where, says the Prologue, “he spent seven years in prison with two common robbers, in damp conditions, without light and without sufficient food, as if in a grave.” When the pious Empress Theodora restored the Empire to Orthodoxy, he was freed and elevated to Patriarch of Constantinople. On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we commemorate the restoration of the Holy Icons by Theodora and Methodios. Despite many attacks by heretics while he was Patriarch, he served faithfully and reposed in peace.

St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaïta(1100)

He is commemorated today on the Slavic Calendar; for his life, see October 5, his commemoration on the Greek Calendar.