18. јул 2025.
Friday of the 6th week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

Holy Martyr Emilian (362)
St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 4.5-8 (Epistle)

5Zato ne sudite ništa prije vremena, dokle Gospod ne doðe, koji æe iznijeti na vidjelo što je sakriveno u tami i objaviæe savjete srdaène, i tada æe pohvala biti svakome od Boga. 6A ovo, braæo moja, prigovorih sebi i Apolu vas radi, da se od nas nauèite da ne mislite za sebe više nego što je napisano, i da se koga radi ne nadimate jedan na drugoga. 7Jer ko tebe povišuje? Šta li imaš što nijesi primio? A ako si primio, što se hvališ kao da nijesi primio? 8Eto ste siti, eto se obogatiste, bez nas carujete. O da biste carovali, da bismo i mi s vama carovali!

Matthew 13.44-54 (Gospel)

44Još je carstvo nebesko kao blago sakriveno u polju, koje našavši èovjek sakri i od radosti zato otide i sve što ima prodade i kupi polje ono. 45Još je carstvo nebesko kao èovjek trgovac koji traži dobra bisera, 46Pa kad naðe jedno mnogocjeno zrno bisera, otide i prodade sve što imaše i kupi ga. 47Još je carstvo nebesko kao mreža koja se baci u more i zagrabi od svake ruke ribe; 48Koja kad se napuni, izvukoše je na kraj, i sjedavši, izbraše dobre u sudove, a zle baciše napolje. 49Tako æe biti na pošljetku vijeka: iziæi æe anðeli i odluèiæe zle od pravednijeh. 50I baciæe ih u peæ ognjenu: ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 51Reèe im Isus: razumjeste li ovo? Rekoše mu: da, Gospode. 52A on im reèe: zato je svaki književnik koji se nauèio carstvu nebeskome kao domaæin koji iznosi iz klijeti svoje novo i staro. 53I kad svrši Isus prièe ove, otide odande. 54I došavši na postojbinu svoju, uèaše ih po zbornicama njihovijem tako da mu se divljahu, i govorahu: otkud ovome premudrost ova i moæi?

Commemorations

Holy Martyr Emilian (362)

He was from the town of Dorostolon in Thrace and during the reign of Julian the Apostate became a servant of the governor in that region. Before the time of his martyrdom he was a secret Christian. An imperial legate arrived in the town with orders to seize all Christians, but failed to find any; to show his pleasure he ordered a great feast for the whole town, complete with sacrifices to the pagan gods. On the night before the appointed feast, Emilian went around the town and smashed all the idols with a hammer. The following day there was an uproar, and an innocent villager was seized and charged with the crime. Emilian, seeing this, said to himself ‘If I conceal my action, what sort of use has it been? Shall I not stand before God as the slayer of an innocent man?’ So he presented himself to the legate and confessed what he had done. When the furious official asked Emilian on whose orders he had acted, Emilian replied ‘God and my soul commanded me to destroy those dead pillars that you call gods.’ As punishment, Emilian was subjected to many tortures and finally burned alive.

St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)

Abba Pambo was a contemporary of St Anthony the Great and one of the greatest of the Desert Fathers. He would only eat bread which he had earned by his own labors, plaiting baskets and mats out of reeds. In his later years, he became in appearance like an angel of God: his face shone so that the monks could not look on it. Through long ascetic labor, he was enabled to control his tongue so that no unnecessary word ever passed his lips. He never gave an immediate answer to even the simplest question, but always prayed and pondered on the question first. Once, when Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, was visiting the monks, they begged Abba Pambo to give the Patriarch a word. He answered: ‘If my silence is no help to him, neither will my words be.’ He reposed in peace, some say in 374, others in 386.