17. јун 2025.
Tuesday of the 2nd week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast — Wine and Oil are Allowed

Commemorations

Martyrs Manuel, Sabael, and Ismael of Persia (362)
Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)

Scripture Readings

Romans 4.4-12 (Epistle)

4A onome koji radi ne broji se plata po milosti nego po dugu. 5A onome koji ne radi a vjeruje onoga koji pravda bezbožnika, prima se vjera njegova u pravdu. 6Kao što i David govori da je blago èovjeku kome Bog prima pravdu bez djela zakona: 7Blago onima kojima se oprostiše bezakonja, i kojima se grijesi prikriše. 8Blago èovjeku kome Gospod ne prima grijeha. 9Ovo dakle blaženstvo ili je u obrezanju ili u neobrezanju? Jer govorimo da se Avraamu primi vjera u pravdu. 10Kako mu se dakle primi? ili kad je bio u obrezanju ili neobrezanju? Ne u obrezanju nego u neobrezanju. 11I primi znak obrezanja kao peèat pravde vjere koju imaše u neobrezanju, da bi bio otac sviju koji vjeruju u neobrezanju; da se i njima primi u pravdu; 12I da bi bio otac obrezanja ne samo onima koji su od obrezanja, nego i onima koji hode po stopama vjere koja bješe u neobrezanju oca našega Avraama.

Matthew 7.15-21 (Gospel)

15Èuvajte se od lažnijeh proroka, koji dolaze k vama u odijelu ovèijemu, a unutra su vuci grabljivi. 16Po rodovima njihovijem poznaæete ih. Eda li se bere s trnja grožðe, ili s èièka smokve? 17Tako svako drvo dobro rodove dobre raða, a zlo drvo rodove zle raða. 18Ne može drvo dobro rodova zlijeh raðati, ni drvo zlo rodova dobrijeh raðati. 19Svako dakle drvo koje ne raða roda dobra, sijeku i u oganj bacaju. 20I tako dakle po rodovima njihovijem poznaæete ih. 21Neæe svaki koji mi govori: Gospode! Gospode! uæi u carstvo nebesko; no koji èini po volji oca mojega koji je na nebesima.

Commemorations

Martyrs Manuel, Sabael, and Ismael of Persia (362)

“The holy Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ishmael, Persians by race and brethren according to the flesh, were sent by the Persian King as ambassadors to Julian the Apostate to negotiate a peace treaty. While with him at a place near Chalcedon, they refused to join him in offering sacrifice to his idols. Scorning the immunity universally accorded ambassadors, he had them slain in the year 362. This was a cause of the war with Persia in which Julian perished miserably the following year.” (Great Horologion)

Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)

‘Saint Botolph was born in Britain about the year 610 and in his youth became a monk in Gaul. The sisters of Ethelmund, King of East Anglia, who were also sent to Gaul to learn the monastic discipline, met Saint Botolph, and learning of his intention to return to Britain, bade their brother the King grant him land on which to found a monastery. Hearing the King’s offer, Saint Botolph asked for land not already in any man’s possession, not wishing that his gain should come through another’s loss, and chose a certain desolate place called Ikanhoe. At his coming, the demons inhabiting Ikanhoe rose up against him with tumult, threats, and horrible apparitions, but the Saint drove them away with the sign of the Cross and his prayer. Through his monastery he established in England the rule of monastic life that he had learned in Gaul. He worked signs and wonders, had the gift of prophecy, and “was distinguished for his sweetness of disposition and affability.” In the last years of his life he bore a certain painful sickness with great patience, giving thanks like Job and continuing to instruct his spiritual children in the rules of the monastic life. He fell asleep in peace about the year 680. His relics were later found incorrupt, and giving off a sweet fragrance. The place where he founded his monastery came to be called “Botolphson” (from either “Botolph’s stone” or “Botolph’s town”) which was later contracted to “Boston.”’ (Great Horologion)