اول قرنتیان ۱۵.۵۸-۱۶.۳ (رساله)

۵۸پس، برادران عزیزم، ثابت و استوار بوده، همواره با تمام وجود به کار خداوند مشغول باشید، زیرا می‌دانید زحمت شما در خداوند بیهوده نیست. ۱و امّا در خصوص جمع‌آوری هدایا برای مقدسین: شما نیز آنچه را که به کلیساهای غَلاطیه گفته‌ام، انجام دهید. ۲روز اوّل هر هفته، هر یک از شما به فراخور درآمد خود پولی کنار گذاشته، پس‌انداز کند، تا به هنگام آمدنم نزد شما، لزومی به جمع‌آوری هدایا نباشد. ۳وقتی آمدم، به افراد مورد تأیید شما معرفی‌نامه‌هایی خواهم داد و آنان را با هدایای شما به اورشلیم خواهم فرستاد.

لوقا ۵.۲۷-۳۲ (انجیل)

۲۷سپس عیسی از آن خانه بیرون آمد و خَراجگیری را دید، لاوی نام، که در خَراجگاه نشسته بود. او را گفت: «از پی من بیا.» ۲۸لاوی برخاسته، همه چیز را ترک گفت و از پی عیسی روان شد. ۲۹او در خانۀ خویش ضیافتی بزرگ به افتخار عیسی بر پا کرد، و جمعی بزرگ از خَراجگیران و دیگر مردم، با آنها بر سفره نشستند. ۳۰امّا فَریسیان و گروهی از علمای دین که از فرقۀ آنها بودند، شِکوِه‌کنان به شاگردان عیسی گفتند: «چرا با خَراجگیران و گناهکاران می‌خورید و می‌آشامید؟» ۳۱عیسی پاسخ داد: «بیمارانند که به طبیب نیاز دارند، نه تندرستان. ۳۲من نیامده‌ام تا پارسایان بلکه تا گناهکاران را به توبه دعوت کنم.»

شهیدان اِولامپیوس و اِولامپیا در نیکومدیا (۱۹۶)

They were brother and sister, from Nicomedia, who suffered for Christ during the reign of Maximian. Eulampius was arrested for his Christian faith; when his sister received the news, she hurried to join him. Both were subjected to various cruel tortures, including being cast into fire and boiling pitch, from which they miraculously emerged unharmed. Finally, Eulampius was beheaded, and Eulampia gave up her spirit before she too could be beheaded.

مبارک دیوانه برای مسیح آندریاس توتما (۱۶۳۷)

“Saint Andrew came of a family of devout, unlettered peasants. He obtained an education by going to church and, on the death of his parents, became a novice at the Monastery of Galich, in the diocese of Kostroma. The Abbot, who was remarkable for his wisdom, discerned Andrew’s spiritual gifts and encouraged him to undertake the unusual and difficult ascesis of Foolishness-for-Christ. Andrew left the monastery to lead a wayfaring life, but often returned to reveal his thoughts and deeds to his starets. On his Elder’s death, he settled near the Church of the Resurrection in the town of Totma, where he was completely unknown. He spent the whole night in prayer and during the day begged alms that he forthwith gave to the poor. He went barefoot summer and winter and lived on nothing but bread and water. Every year he made a pilgrimage to the holy places of the region. One day he was accosted by the chief of an outlandish tribe. The man was suffering from an eye complaint and asked Andrew, who was already looked upon as a wonderworker, to cure him. Andrew fled, but the wild man washed his eyes in the snow trodden by the Saint and was healed.

“Worn out by ascesis and privation, Saint Andrew foreknew the day of his decease. He called a priest, confessed and communicated in the holy Mysteries, and not long after he fell asleep in the Lord, a heavenly scent pervading the room where his body lay. Some time later, the Saint appeared to a sick woman as she slept, holding the Gospel for her to venerate and telling her to pray at his tomb. When she awoke, the woman was healed.” (Synaxarion)