Romans 3.28-4.3 (Epistle)

28Mislimo dakle da æe se èovjek opravdati vjerom bez djela zakona. 29Ili je samo Jevrejski Bog, a ne i neznabožaèki? Da, i neznabožaèki. 30Jer je jedan Bog koji æe opravdati obrezanje iz vjere i neobrezanje vjerom. 31Kvarimo li dakle zakon vjerom? Bože saèuvaj! nego ga još utvrðujemo.

1Šta æemo dakle reæi za Avraama, oca svojega, da je po tijelu našao? 2Jer ako se Avraam djelima opravda, ima hvalu, ali ne u Boga. 3Jer šta govori pismo? Vjerova Avraam Bogu, i primi mu se u pravdu.

Matthew 7.24-8.4 (Gospel)

24Svaki dakle koji sluša ove moje rijeèi i izvršuje ih, kazaæu da je kao mudar èovjek koji sazida kuæu svoju na kamenu: 25I udari dažd, i doðoše vode, i dunuše vjetrovi, i napadoše na kuæu onu, i ne pade; jer bješe utvrðena na kamenu. 26A svaki koji sluša ove moje rijeèi a ne izvršuje ih, on æe biti kao èovjek lud koji sazida kuæu svoju na pijesku: 27I udari dažd, i doðoše vode, i dunuše vjetrovi, i udariše u kuæu onu, i pade, i raspade se strašno. 28I kad svrši Isus rijeèi ove, divljaše se narod nauci njegovoj. 29Jer ih uèaše kao onaj koji vlast ima, a ne kao književnici.

1A kad siðe s gore, za njim iðaše naroda mnogo. 2I gle, èovjek gubav doðe i klanjaše mu se govoreæi: Gospode! ako hoæeš, možeš me oèistiti. 3I pruživši ruku Isus, dohvati ga se govoreæi: hoæu, oèisti se. I odmah oèisti se od gube. 4I reèe mu Isus: gledaj, nikomu ne kazuj, nego idi i pokaži se svešteniku, i prinesi dar koji je zapovjedio Mojsije radi svjedoèanstva njima.

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)

Noted in his own time for his wisdom and virtue, he was called Eubolos, meaning “of good counsel.” He was among the first to oppose the heretical writings of Origen. He was bishop in Patara (according to some sources) or Olympia (according to others), then of Tyre in Phoenecia. Under the Emperor Maximinus, he was attacked by the pagans and received the crown of martyrdom in Chalkis in Greece.

St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)

For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he remained until his death in 1363. He wrote the definitive lives of St Gregory the Sinaite and St Theodosius of Trnovo. He was known to St Maximos Kapsokalyvia (the Hut-burner), who foretold his death: On his final journey to Serbia, on which he died, the Patriarch stopped on Mt Athos, where St Maximos saw him and said, “This elder will not see his flock again, because I hear behind him the hymn over the grave, ‘Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way…’”

Blessed Studios (5th c.)

He was a prominent nobleman and consul in Constantinople. In the City he founded both the Church of St John the Forerunner in 463, and the monastery thereafter called the Studion in honor of him. The Studion monastery nurtured a long line of ascetics, teachers, and martyrs; perhaps the best known is St Theodore the Studite (November 11), the great defender of the holy icons. The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.