19. септембар 2025.
Friday of the 15th week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon of Synnada (278)
Holy Martyr Zosimas the Hermit of Cilicia (4th c.)

Scripture Readings

Galatians 4.8-21 (Epistle)

8Ali tada ne znajuæi Boga služiste onima koji po sebi nijesu bogovi. 9A sad poznavši Boga, i još poznati bivši od Boga, kako se vraæate opet na slabe i rðave stihije, kojima opet iznova hoæete da služite? 10Gledate na dane i mjesece, i vremena i godine. 11Bojim se za vas da se ne budem uzalud trudio oko vas. 12Budite kao ja što sam; jer sam ja kao vi što ste. Braæo! molim vas, ništa mi ne uèiniste nažao. 13A znate da vam u slabosti tijela najprije propovjedih jevanðelje; 14I napasti moje, koja bijaše tijelu mome, ne prezreste, ni popljuvaste, nego me primiste kao anðela Božijega, kao Hrista Isusa. 15Kakovo bijaše onda vaše blaženstvo? Jer vam svjedoèim da biste, kad bi moguæe bilo, izvadili oèi svoje i dali meni. 16Tijem li vam postadoh neprijatelj istinu vam govoreæi? 17Oni ne revnuju dobro za vas, nego hoæe da vas odvoje, da im revnujete. 18A dobro je revnovati svagda u dobru, i ne samo kad sam ja kod vas. 19Djeèice moja, koju opet s mukom raðam, dokle Hristovo oblièje ne postane u vama; 20Ali bih htio sad da sam kod vas, i da izmijenim glas svoj, jer ne mogu da se naèudim za vas. 21Kažite mi, vi koji hoæete pod zakonom da budete, ne slušate li zakona?

Mark 6.45-53 (Gospel)

45I odmah natjera uèenike svoje da uðu u laðu i da idu naprijed na onu stranu u Vitsaidu dok on otpusti narod. 46I otpustivši ih otide na goru da se pomoli Bogu. 47I uveèe bijaše laða nasred mora, a on sam na zemlji. 48I vidje ih gdje se muèahu veslajuæi: jer im bijaše protivan vjetar. I oko èetvrte straže noæne doðe k njima iduæi po moru; i šæadijaše da ih mimoiðe. 49A oni vidjevši ga gdje ide po moru mišljahu da je utvara, i povikaše; 50Jer ga svi vidješe i poplašiše se. I odmah progovori s njima, i reèe im: ne bojte se, ja sam, ne plašite se. 51I uðe k njima u laðu, i utoli vjetar; i vrlo se uplašiše, i divljahu se. 52Jer ih ne nauèiše hljebovi; jer se bijaše srce njihovo okamenilo. 53I prešavši doðoše u zemlju Genisaretsku; i stadoše u kraj.

Commemorations

Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon of Synnada (278)

Saints Trophimus and Sabbatius came to Antioch during a great festival of Apollo and Daphne. Sorrowing for the blindness of the people they presented themselves to Atticus, the governor, and announced that they were Christians. Sabbatius was tortured so cruelly that he died in his sufferings; Trophimus was sent to Synnada, where he in turn was tortured, then imprisoned barely alive. An official of that city, Dorymedon, was moved to pity and came to the prison to care for Trophimus. (The Great Horologion says that he was still a pagan at the time, the Prologue that he was a secret Christian). When a pagan festival came, Dorymedon refused to worship the idols and proclaimed himself a Christian. He and Trophimus together were tortured, thrown to wild beasts (who would not touch them), and finally beheaded.

Holy Martyr Zosimas the Hermit of Cilicia (4th c.)

Dometian, a prince and a fierce persecutor of Christians, was hunting in the mountains when he came upon an old man surrounded by wild beasts, who were as gentle and tame as lambs in his presence. When asked who he was, the old man answered that he was Zosimas, a Christian who had left the persecutors in the city to live among the beasts instead. Dometian, hearing that Zosimas was a Christian, ordered him seized and bound, and subjected him to many tortures. When the holy man was wounded and beaten all over, the prince tied a rock around his neck and hanged him from a tree, mocking him with the words ‘Command a wild beast to come, then we will all believe!’ Zosimas prayed, and at once a large lion appeared, came up to Zosimas, and took the weight of the rock on its head to ease the martyr’s sufferings. The terrified prince freed Zosimas, who died of his wounds not long afterward.