21. јун 2025.
Saturday of the 2nd week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

Commemorations

Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (305)
Our Holy Fathers Julius and Julian (5th c.)

Scripture Readings

Romans 3.19-26 (Epistle)

19A znamo da ono što zakon govori, govori onima koji su u zakonu, da se svaka usta zatisnu, i sav svijet da bude kriv Bogu; 20Jer se djelima zakona nijedno tijelo neæe opravdati pred njim; jer kroz zakon dolazi poznanje grijeha. 21A sad se bez zakona javi pravda Božija, posvjedoèena od zakona i od proroka; 22A pravda Božija vjerom Isusa Hrista u sve i na sve koji vjeruju; jer nema razlike. 23Jer svi sagriješiše i izgubili su slavu Božiju, 24I opravdaæe se zabadava blagodaæu njegovom, otkupom Isusa Hrista. 25Kojega postavi Bog oèišæenje vjerom u krvi njegovoj da pokaže svoju pravdu oproštenjem preðašnjijeh grijeha; 26U podnošenju Božijemu, da pokaže pravdu svoju u sadašnje vrijeme da je on pravedan i da pravda onoga koji je od vjere Isusove.

Matthew 7.1-8 (Gospel)

1Ne sudite da vam se ne sudi; 2Jer kakovijem sudom sudite, onakovijem æe vam suditi; i kakovom mjerom mjerite, onakom æe vam se mjeriti. 3A zašto vidiš trun u oku brata svojega, a brvna u oku svojemu ne osjeæaš? 4Ili, kako možeš reæi bratu svojemu: stani da ti izvadim trun iz oka tvojega; a eto brvno u oku tvojemu? 5Licemjere! izvadi najprije brvno iz oka svojega, pa æeš onda vidjeti izvaditi trun iz oka brata svojega. 6Ne dajte svetinje psima; niti meæite bisera svojega pred svinje, da ga ne pogaze nogama svojima, i vrativši se ne rastrgnu vas. 7Ištite, i daæe vam se; tražite, i naæi æete; kucajte, i otvoriæe vam se. 8Jer svaki koji ište, prima; i koji traži, nalazi; i koji kuca, otvoriæe mu se.

Commemorations

Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia (305)

“Of a noble senatorial family, he lived in Tarsus in Cilicia and suffered in the reign of Diocletian. Although only eighteen years old when he was taken for trial for the Faith, St Julian was already both educated and resolute in Christian faith and devotion. The imperial governor took him from city to city for a whole year, torturing him all the while and attempting to persuade him to renounce Christ. Julian’s mother followed her son at a distance. When the governor seized her and sent her to urge her son to renounce Christ, she spent three days in the prison with him, giving him precisely the opposite advice, teaching him and giving him the strength not to lose heart but to go to his death with courage and gratitude to God. His torturers then sewed Julian into a sack of sand with scorpions and snakes and threw him into the sea, and his mother also died under torture. The waves carried his body onto the shore, and the faithful took it to Alexandria, where they buried it in 290. His relics were later taken to Antioch. St John Chrysostom himself gave an eulogy for the holy martyr Julian: ‘A holy voice comes forth from the lips of the martyr, and with this voice is poured out a light brighter than the rays of the sun.’ He said further: ‘Take whomsoever you will, be he a madman or one possessed, and lead him to the grave of this saint, to the martyr’s relics, and you will see the demon immediately jump out and flee as from blazing fire.’ It is evident from this speech that many wonders must have been wrought at St Julian’s grave.” (Prologue)

Our Holy Fathers Julius and Julian (5th c.)

They were brothers from Greece, Christians from childhood; Julius was a priest, Julian a deacon. At the command of the Emperor Theodosius the Younger, they set out as missionaries to destroy idols and bring the people to faith in Christ throughout the Empire. During their lifetime they built a hundred churches and brought thousands to Christ. They reposed in peace near Milan: that city’s people once invoked St Julius for help against wolves.