Romans 5.17-6.2 (Epistle)

17Jer kad za grijeh jednoga carova smrt kroz jednoga, koliko æe veæma oni koji primaju izobilje blagodati i dar pravde u životu carovati kroz jednoga Isusa Hrista! 18Zato dakle kao što za grijeh jednoga doðe osuðenje na sve ljude, tako i pravdom jednoga doðe na sve ljude opravdanje života. 19Jer kao što neposlušanjem jednoga èovjeka postaše mnogi grješni, tako æe i poslušanjem jednoga biti mnogi pravedni. 20A zakon doðe uz to da se umnoži grijeh; jer gdje se umnoži grijeh ondje se još veæma umnoži blagodat, 21Da kao što carova grijeh za smrt, tako i blagodat da caruje pravdom za život vjeèni, kroz Isusa Hrista Gospoda našega.

1Šta æemo dakle reæi? Hoæemo li ostati u grijehu da se blagodat umnoži? Bože saèuvaj! 2Jer koji umrijesmo grijehu kako æemo još življeti u njemu?

Matthew 9.14-17 (Gospel)

14Tada pristupiše k njemu uèenici Jovanovi govoreæi: zašto mi i fariseji postimo mnogo, a uèenici tvoji ne poste? 15A Isus reèe im: eda li mogu svatovi plakati dok je s njima ženik? Nego æe doæi vrijeme kad æe se oteti od njih ženik, i onda æe postiti. 16Jer niko ne meæe nove zakrpe na staru haljinu; jer æe zakrpa odadrijeti od haljine, i gora æe rupa biti. 17Niti se ljeva vino novo u mjehove stare; inaèe mjehovi prodru se i vino se prolije, i mjehovi propadnu. Nego se ljeva vino novo u mjehove nove, i oboje se saèuva.

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)

Noted in his own time for his wisdom and virtue, he was called Eubolos, meaning “of good counsel.” He was among the first to oppose the heretical writings of Origen. He was bishop in Patara (according to some sources) or Olympia (according to others), then of Tyre in Phoenecia. Under the Emperor Maximinus, he was attacked by the pagans and received the crown of martyrdom in Chalkis in Greece.

St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)

For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he remained until his death in 1363. He wrote the definitive lives of St Gregory the Sinaite and St Theodosius of Trnovo. He was known to St Maximos Kapsokalyvia (the Hut-burner), who foretold his death: On his final journey to Serbia, on which he died, the Patriarch stopped on Mt Athos, where St Maximos saw him and said, “This elder will not see his flock again, because I hear behind him the hymn over the grave, ‘Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way…’”

Blessed Studios (5th c.)

He was a prominent nobleman and consul in Constantinople. In the City he founded both the Church of St John the Forerunner in 463, and the monastery thereafter called the Studion in honor of him. The Studion monastery nurtured a long line of ascetics, teachers, and martyrs; perhaps the best known is St Theodore the Studite (November 11), the great defender of the holy icons. The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.