2 Timothy 3.16-4.4 (Epistle)

16Sve je pismo od Boga dano, i korisno za uèenje, za karanje, za popravljanje, za pouèavanje u pravdi, 17Da bude savršen èovjek Božij, za svako dobro djelo pripravljen.

1Zaklinjem te dakle pred Bogom i Gospodom našijem Isusom Hristom, koji æe suditi živima i mrtvima, dolaskom njegovijem i carstvom njegovijem: 2Propovijedaj rijeè, nastoj u dobro vrijeme i u nevrijeme, pokaraj, zaprijeti, umoli sa svakijem snošenjem i uèenjem; 3Jer æe doæi vrijeme kad zdrave nauke neæe slušati, nego æe po svojijem željama nakupiti sebi uèitelje, kao što ih uši svrbe, 4I odvratiæe uši od istine, i okrenuæe se ka gatalicama.

Luke 19.45-48 (Gospel)

45I ušavši u crkvu stade izgoniti one što prodavahu u njoj i kupovahu, 46Govoreæi im: u pismu stoji: dom moj dom je molitve, a vi naèiniste od njega peæinu hajduèku. 47I uèaše svaki dan u crkvi. A glavari sveštenièki i književnici i starješine narodne gledahu da ga pogube. 48I ne nalažahu šta bi mu uèinili; jer sav narod iðaše za njim, i slušahu ga.

Holy Martyr Tatiana (ca. 230)

She was the daughter of a wealthy Roman consul. She became a deaconess in Rome, and was seized as a Christian during the reign of Alexander Severus. Before the tribunal she fearlessly confessed Christ and, when she was taken to the temple in an effort to force her to make sacrifice, she cast down the idols by the power of her prayer. At this, the soldiers seized her and subjected her to many indignities and tortures, finally throwing her into a raging furnace. When this did not harm her, she was thrown to the wild beasts, but they refused to harm her. At last she was beheaded and thus gained her crown.

Venerable Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth (689-690)

He came from a noble Northumbrian family in Britain, and was tonsured a monk in 653 at Lerins in Gaul. In 669 he was made Abbot of the Monastery of Saints Peter and Paul in Canterbury. He traveled to Rome in 671 to be instructed in monastic practice according to the Rule of Saint Benedict (of Nursia). Returning to Northumbria he established two new monasteries, the first to follow St Benedict’s Rule in the British Isles. He went to Rome once again in 678-679, this time bringing back the archcantor of St Peter’s, who taught the monks of St Benedict’s monasteries the chant and liturgical practices used in Rome.

Under the holy abbot’s guidance, these monasteries became flourishing centers of Christian worship, scholarship and art. The Venerable Bede (May 26) was one of his disciples. Saint Benedict reposed in peace in 689 or 690, having greatly strengthened the Church and the Christian faith in Britain.