24. август 2026.
Monday of the 13th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)
New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)
Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 8.7-15 (Epistle)

7A vi kako ste u svemu izobilni, u vjeri, i u rijeèi, i u razumu, i u svakom staranju, i u ljubavi svojoj k nama, da i u ovoj blagodati izobilujete. 8Ne govorim po zapovijesti, nego kad se drugi staraju, i vašu ljubav kušam je li istinita. 9Jer znate blagodat Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista da, bogat buduæi, vas radi osiromaši, da se vi njegovijem siromaštvom obogatite. 10I svjet dajem u tom; jer je ovo na korist vama, koji ne samo èiniti nego i htjeti poèeste još od lanjske godine. 11A sad dovršite to i èiniti, da kao što bi dobra volja htjeti tako da bude i uèiniti, od toga što imate. 12Jer ako ima ko dobru volju, mio je po onome što ima, a ne po onome što nema. 13Jer se ne želi da drugima bude radost a vama žalost, nego jednako. 14Da u sadašnje vrijeme vaš suvišak bude za njihov nedostatak, da i njihov suvišak bude za vaš nedostatak; da bude jednakost, 15Kao što je pisano: ko je mnogo skupio, nije mu preteklo; i ko je malo skupio, nije mu nedostalo.

Mark 3.6-12 (Gospel)

6I izišavši fariseji odmah uèiniše za njega vijeæu s Irodovcima kako bi ga pogubili. 7A Isus otide s uèenicima svojijem k moru; i mnogi narod iz Galileje ide za njim i iz Judeje; 8I iz Jerusalima i iz Idumeje i ispreko Jordana i od Tira i Sidona mnoštvo veliko èuvši šta on èini doðe k njemu. 9I reèe uèenicima svojijem da bude laða u njega gotova zbog naroda, da mu ne dosaðuje. 10Jer mnoge iscijeli tako da navaljivahu na njega koji bijahu nakaženi bolestima da ga se dotaknu. 11I dusi neèisti kad ga viðahu, pripadahu k njemu i vikahu govoreæi: ti si sin Božij. 12I mnogo im prijeæaše da ga ne prokažu.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)

He was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian, and worked with the Apostle Paul, and is himself named as an Apostle though he is not one of the Seventy. He travelled widely in the ministry of the Gospel of Christ, suffering many imprisonments and tortures. He died in Sebastia, the place of his birth. The Prologue says that he was beheaded, the Great Horologion that he reposed in peace “in deep old age.”

New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)

This recent Equal to the Apostles was born in Mega Dendron (Great Tree) in Aetolia. He became a monk on Mt Athos, where he lived and prayed for many years. But he was troubled by the ignorance of the Gospel that had fallen on many of the Orthodox people, living under the oppression of the Ottoman Turks. He went to Constantinople, where he studied the rhetorical arts and received the blessing of Patriarch Seraphim II to preach the Gospel. He travelled throughout Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania, preaching at every town he visited. Often not only Greeks but many Muslims would come to hear him, so great was his reputation for holiness. Though he always sought the blessing of the local bishop and the local Turkish governor before he preached in an area, his strong condemnations of dishonest business practices aroused the enmity of Orthodox Christian and Jewish merchants, who falsely accused him to the authorities. He was strangled by the Turks and thrown into a river in Albania, but his wonderworking relics were preserved. He reposed at the age of sixty-five.

Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

See December 21 for his life.