دوم تیموتائوس ۳.۱۶-۴.۴ (رساله)

۱۶تمامی کتبِ مقدّس الهام خداست و برای تعلیم و تأدیب و اصلاح و تربیت در پارسایی سودمند است، ۱۷تا مرد خدا به کمال برای هر کارِ نیکو تجهیز گردد. ۱در برابر خدا و مسیحْ عیسی که بر زندگان و مردگان داوری خواهد کرد، و نظر به ظهور او و پادشاهی‌اش، تو را مکلّف می‌سازم که ۲کلام را موعظه کنی و به گاه و به بیگاه آمادۀ این کار باشی و با صبر بسیار و تعلیم دقیق، به اصلاح و توبیخ و تشویق بپردازی. ۳زیرا زمانی خواهد آمد که مردم به تعلیم صحیح گوش فرا نخواهند داد، بلکه بنا به میل خویش، معلّمان بسیار گِرد خود خواهند آورد تا آنچه را که گوشهایشان طالب شنیدن آن است، از آنان بشنوند؛ ۴و از گوش فرا دادن به حقیقت رویگردان شده، به سوی افسانه‌ها منحرف خواهند گشت.

لوقا ۲۱.۱۲-۱۹ (انجیل)

۱۲«امّا پیش از این همه، شما را گرفتار کرده، آزار خواهند رسانید و به کنیسه‌ها و زندانها خواهند سپرد، و به‌خاطر نام من، شما را نزد پادشاهان و والیان خواهند برد ۱۳و این‌گونه فرصت خواهید یافت تا شهادت دهید. ۱۴این را خوب به خاطر بسپارید که پیشاپیش نگران نباشید در دفاع از خود چه بگویید. ۱۵زیرا به شما کلام و حکمتی خواهم داد که هیچ‌یک از دشمنانتان را یارای مقاومت یا مخالفت با آن نباشد. ۱۶حتی والدین و برادرانتان، و خویشان و دوستانتان شما را تسلیم دشمن خواهند کرد و برخی از شما را خواهند کشت. ۱۷مردم همه به‌خاطر نام من از شما نفرت خواهند داشت. ۱۸امّا مویی از سرتان گُم نخواهد شد. ۱۹با پایداری، جان خود را نجات خواهید داد.

قدیس پاتاپیوس تبس

He was born at Thebes in Egypt, and at a young age left his pious parents, his inheritance and his acquaintances to dwell in the Egyptian desert, devoting himself to ceaseless prayer. After many years, he reputation spread and, despite his desire for solitude, throngs of pilgrims would seek him out for his prayers and counsel. To escape the attentions of men, he did a surprising thing: he abandoned the desert and moved to Constantinople, settling in the Blachernae district, where, amid the bustle of the city, he was able to pass unnoticed, more secure in his solitude than he had been in the caves of Egypt.

As he grew in obedience to the commandments of Christ, the grace of working miracles grew in him, and once again he gradually became known. Once a blind man cast himself before Patapius on the street, and the Saint cured him instantly by calling on the name of Christ. Once he healed a man crippled by dropsy, anointing him with the oil from a vigil lamp and signing him with the Cross.

After blessing the Church for many years with his prayers and miracles, St Patapius fell asleep in peace, and was buried in the church of the Monastery of the Egyptians near Constantinople. In 1904 his precious and incorrupt relics were uncovered in the course of some building at a small monastery near Corinth. From that time the monastery has been dedicated to St Patapius, and many miracles are worked there.

رسولان مقدس سوستنس, آپولوس, تیخیکوس و اِپافرودیتوس, کیفا و قیصر

All of these Apostles are mentioned in the New Testament. Sosthenes was the ruler of the Synagogue in Corinth, and was converted through the preaching of St Paul. After traveling with St Paul for years, he became Bishop of Colophon near Ephesus. Apollos was a Jew from Alexandria, well educated and with a deep knowledge of the Scriptures. He was brought to the fulness of the Christian faith by Priscilla and Aquila in Ephesus, and went out preaching the Gospel among the pagans. His eloquence was so admired that for awhile the gentile Church divided into two factions, one for Paul and one for Apollos. Saint Apollos later became Bishop of Caesarea.

(The Synaxarion lists Cephas and Caesar here; but some believe that St Paul’s reference to Cephas in 1 Cor 1:12 refers to the Apostle Peter, not to a separate companion of St Paul; and that “those of Caesar’s household” (Phil. 4:22) refers to Christians in the Emperor’s palace in Rome, not to a Christian named Caesar.)