Orthodox Calendar

17. јул 2025.
Thursday of the 6th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Feasts

  • Royal Passionbearers

Commemorations

  • Great-martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (270)

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 3.18-23 (Epistle)

18Niko neka se ne vara: ako ko meðu vama misli da je mudar na ovome svijetu, neka bude lud da bude mudar. 19Jer je premudrost ovoga svijeta ludost pred Bogom, jer je pisano: hvata premudre u njihovu lukavstvu. 20I opet: Gospod zna pomisli mudrijeh da su ništa. 21Zato niko da se ne hvali èovjekom, jer je sve vaše. 22Bio Pavle, ili Apolo, ili Kifa, ili svijet, ili život ili smrt, ili sadašnje, ili buduæe: sve je vaše; 23A vi ste Hristovi a Hristos Božij.

Matthew 13.36-43 (Gospel)

36Tada ostavi Isus ljude, i doðe u kuæu. I pristupiše k njemu uèenici njegovi govoreæi: kaži nam prièu o kukolju na njivi. 37A on odgovarajuæi reèe im: koji sije dobro sjeme ono je sin èovjeèij; 38A njiva je svijet; a dobro sjeme sinovi su carstva, a kukolj sinovi su zla; 39A neprijatelj koji ga je posijao jest ðavo; a žetva je pošljedak ovoga vijeka; a žeteoci su anðeli. 40Kako što se dakle kukolj sabira, i ognjem sažiže, tako æe biti na pošljetku ovoga vijeka. 41Poslaæe sin èovjeèij anðele svoje, i sabraæe iz carstva njegova sve sablazni i koji èine bezakonje. 42I baciæe ih u peæ ognjenu: ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 43Tada æe se pravednici zasjati kao sunce u carstvu oca svojega. Ko ima uši da èuje neka èuje.

Commemorations

Great-martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (270)

She was born in Antioch of Pisidia to pagan parents; her father was a pagan priest. When she was about twelve years old her mother died, and she was given into the care of a woman who told her of the Gospel of Christ. She was immediately filled with love for Christ and consecrated her life to His service. Her father, hearing of this, was furious and disowned her. When she was fifteen years old, she was brought before the governor Olymbrius, who first desired to marry her and, when she refused, ordered her to make sacrifice to the idols. She refused and proclaimed herself a Christian. For this she was harshly tortured, imprisoned, and finally beheaded. While she was in prison she was tormented by demons, but drove them away by her prayers. For this reason she is especially invoked for deliverance from demonic possession. One of her hands is preserved at Vatopedi Monastery on the Holy Mountain, and some of her relics are preserved at an Albanian Monastery dedicated to her.