Orthodox Calendar

28. јун 2026.
4th Sunday after Pentecost

Apostles Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

Commemorations

  • Sts Sergius and Herman (1353), abbots of Valaam
  • Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"
  • Translation of the Relics (412)of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus & John
  • Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.)

Scripture Readings

Luke 24.1-12 (4th Matins Gospel)

1A u prvi dan nedjeljni doðoše vrlo rano na grob, i donesoše mirise što pripraviše, i neke druge žene s njima; 2Ali naðoše kamen odvaljen od groba. 3I ušavši ne naðoše tijela Gospoda Isusa. 4I kad se one èuðahu tome, gle, dva èovjeka staše pred njima u sjajnijem haljinama; 5A kad se one uplašiše i oboriše lica k zemlji, rekoše im: što tražite živoga meðu mrtvima? 6Nije ovdje; nego ustade; opomenite se kako vam kaza kad bješe još u Galileji, 7Govoreæi da sin èovjeèij treba da se preda u ruke ljudi grješnika i da se razapne i treæi dan da ustane. 8I opomenuše se rijeèi njegovijeh. 9I vrativši se od groba javiše sve ovo jedanaestorici i svima ostalijem. 10A to bijaše Magdalina Marija i Jovana i Marija Jakovljeva i ostale s njima koje kazaše ovo apostolima. 11I njima se uèiniše njihove rijeèi kao laž, i ne vjerovaše im. 12A Petar ustavši otrèa ka grobu, i natkuèivši se vidje same haljine gdje leže, i otide èudeæi se u sebi šta bi.

Romans 6.18-23 (Epistle)

18Oprostivši se pak od grijeha postaste sluge pravdi. 19Kao èovjek govorim, za slabost vašega tijela. Jer kao što dadoste ude svoje za robove neèistoti i bezakonju na bezakonje, tako sad dajite ude svoje za sluge pravdi na posveæenje. 20Jer kad bijaste robovi grijehu, prosti bijaste od pravde. 21Kakav dakle onda imadoste plod za koji se sad stidite? Jer je onoga kraj smrt. 22A sad oprostivši se od grijeha, i postavši sluge Božije, imate plod svoj na posveæenje, a kraj život vjeèni. 23Jer je plata za grijeh smrt, a dar Božij je život vjeèni u Hristu Isusu Gospodu našemu.

Matthew 8.5-13 (Gospel)

5A kad uðe u Kapernaum, pristupi k njemu kapetan moleæi ga 6I govoreæi: Gospode! sluga moj leži doma uzet, i muèi se vrlo. 7A Isus reèe mu: ja æu doæi i iscijeliæu ga. 8I kapetan odgovori i reèe: Gospode! nijesam dostojan da pod krov moj uðeš; nego samo reci rijeè, i ozdraviæe sluga moj. 9Jer i ja sam èovjek pod vlasti, i imam pod sobom vojnike, pa reèem jednome: idi, i ide; i drugome: doði, i doðe; i sluzi svojemu: uèini to, i uèini. 10A kad èu Isus, udivi se i reèe onima što idu za njim: zaista vam kažem: ni u Izrailju tolike vjere ne naðoh. 11I to vam kažem da æe mnogi od istoka i zapada doæi i sješæe za trpezu s Avraamom i Isakom i Jakovom u carstvu nebeskome: 12A sinovi carstva izgnaæe se u tamu najkrajnju; ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 13A kapetanu reèe Isus: idi, i kako si vjerovao neka ti bude. I ozdravi sluga njegov u taj èas.

Commemorations

Sts Sergius and Herman (1353), abbots of Valaam

After helping to establish Orthodoxy among the Karelian Finns, they founded the famous Valaam Monastery on Lake Ladoga in northern Russia. Both reposed in the same year.

Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"

Saint John of Damascus (December 4), the great defender of Orthodoxy against the iconoclasts, was falsely accused of plotting against the Caliph of Damascus through the intrigues of the iconoclast Emperor Leo the Isaurian (reigned 717-741). The Caliph ordered St John’s hand to be cut off for his suspected treachery. The saint asked for the severed hand, and passed the night praying fervently for aid before an icon of the most holy Theotokos. Waking in the morning, he found his hand miraculously restored, with only a scar around the wrist where it had been completely severed. In thanksgiving, St John had a silver hand mounted on the icon. When he became a monk in the monastery of St Sabbas in the Holy Land, he took the icon with him. It remained there until it was given to St Sabbas (Sava) of Serbia (January 14), who brought it to Serbia. Later it was miraculously taken to the Hilandar Monastery on the Holy Mountain (carried, according to legend, from Serbia to Mt Athos by an unguided donkey), where it may now be found.

Translation of the Relics (412)of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus & John

They are counted among the Unmercenary Physicians. For their lives, see January 31.

Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.)

“A great ascetic and wonderworker of the Egyptian desert, he was a contemporary of Patriarch Theophilus and the Emperor Theodosius the Great. He is called ‘the Standard-Bearer’ because he once helped the Emperor Theodosius to gain a victory over enemy forces by his prayers. When the Emperor summoned him to Constantinople, he replied that he was unable to go, but sent his torn and patched monastic habit and his staff. Going out to battle, the Emperor put on Sennuphius’s habit and carried his staff in his hand, and returned victorious from the battle.” (Prologue)