19. мај 2027.
Wednesday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha

Fast — Wine and Oil are Allowed

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)

Scripture Readings

Acts 8.18-25 (Epistle)

18A kad vidje Simon da se daje Duh sveti kad apostoli metnu ruke, donese im novce 19Govoreæi: dajte i meni ovu vlast da kad metnem ruke na koga primi Duha svetoga. 20A Petar mu reèe: novci tvoji s tobom da budu u pogibao, što si pomislio da se dar Božij može dobiti za novce. 21Nema tebi dijela ni iseta u ovoj rijeèi; jer srce tvoje nije pravo pred Bogom. 22Pokaj se dakle od ove svoje pakosti, i moli se Bogu da bi ti se oprostila pomisao srca tvoga. 23Jer te vidim da si u grkoj žuèi i u svezi nepravde. 24A Simon odgovarajuæi reèe: pomolite se vi Gospodu za mene da ne naiðe na mene ništa od ovoga što rekoste. 25Tako oni posvjedoèivši i govorivši rijeè Gospodnju vratiše se u Jerusalim, i mnogijem selima Samarijskijem propovjediše jevanðelje.

John 6.35-39 (Gospel)

35A Isus im reèe: ja sam hljeb života: koji meni dolazi neæe ogladnjeti, i koji mene vjeruje neæe nikad ožednjeti. 36Nego vam kazah da me i vidjeste i ne vjerujete. 37Sve što meni daje otac k meni æe doæi; i koji dolazi k meni neæu ga istjerati napolje. 38Jer siðoh s neba ne da èinim volju svoju, nego volju oca koji me posla. 39A ovo je volja oca koji me posla da od onoga što mi dade ništa ne izgubim, nego da ga vaskrsnem u pošljednji dan.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Patrick, bishop of Prusa, and three priests with him (3rd c?)

‘Saint Patrick was Bishop of Prusa, a city in Bythinia (the present-day Brusa or Bursa). Because of his Christian faith, he was brought before Julius (or Julian) the Consul, who in his attempts to persuade Patrick to worship as he himself did, declared that thanks was owed to the gods for providing the hot springs welling up from the earth for the benefit of men. Saint Patrick answered that thanks for this was owed to our Lord Jesus Christ, and explained that when He, Who is God, created the earth, He made it with both fire and water, and the fire under the earth heats the water which wells up, producing hot springs; he then explained that there is another fire, which awaits the ungodly. Because of this, he was cast into the hot springs, but it was the soldiers who cast him in, and not he, who were harmed by the hot water. After this St Patrick was beheaded with the presbyters Acacius, Menander, and Polyaenus. Most likely this was during the reign of Diocletian (284-305).’ (Great Horologion)