20. мај 2027.
Thursday of the 3rd Sunday of Pascha

No Fast

Commemorations

Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)
Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

Scripture Readings

Acts 8.26-39 (Epistle)

26A anðeo Gospodnji reèe Filipu govoreæi: ustani i idi na podne na put koji silazi od Jerusalima u Gazu i pust je. 27I ustavši poðe. I gle, èovjek Arapin, uškopljenik, vlastelin Kandakije carice Arapske, što bješe nad svima njezinijem riznicama, koji bješe došao u Jerusalim da se moli Bogu, 28Pa se vraæaše, i sjedeæi na kolima svojijem èitaše proroka Isaiju. 29A Duh reèe Filipu: pristupi i prilijepi se tijem kolima. 30A Filip pritrèavši èu ga gdje èita proroka Isaiju, i reèe: a razumiješ li što èitaš? 31A on reèe: kako bih mogao ako me ko ne uputi? I umoli Filipa te se pope i sjede s njim. 32A mjesto iz pisma koje èitaše bješe ovo: kao ovca na zaklanje odvede se, i nijem kao jagnje pred onijem koji ga striže, tako ne otvori usta svojijeh. 33U njegovom poniženju ukide se sud njegov. A rod njegov ko æe iskazati? Jer se njegov život uzima od zemlje. 34Onda uškopljenik odgovori Filipu i reèe: molim te, za koga ovo govori prorok? ili za sebe ili za koga drugoga? 35A Filip otvorivši usta svoja, i poèevši od pisma ovoga, propovjedi mu jevanðelje Isusovo. 36Kako iðahu putem doðoše na nekaku vodu; i reèe uškopljenik: evo vode, šta brani meni da se krstim? 37A Filip mu reèe: ako vjeruješ od svega srca svojega, možeš. A on odgovarajuæi reèe: vjerujem da je Isus Hristos sin Božij. 38I zapovjedi da stanu kola, i siðoše oba na vodu, i Filip i uškopljenik, i krsti ga. 39A kad iziðoše iz vode, Duh sveti pade na uškopljenika, a anðeo Gospodnji uze Filipa, i više ga ne vidje uškopljenik; nego otide putem svojijem radujuæi se.

John 6.40-44 (Gospel)

40A ovo je volja onoga koji me posla da svaki koji vidi sina i vjeruje ga ima život vjeèni; i ja æu ga vaskrsnuti u pošljednji dan. 41Tada vikahu Jevreji na njega što reèe: ja sam hljeb koji siðe s neba. 42I govorahu: nije li ovo Isus sin Josifov kojemu mi znamo oca i mater? kako dakle on govori: ja siðoh s neba? 43Onda Isus odgovori i reèe im: ne vièite meðu sobom. 44Niko ne može doæi k meni ako ga ne dovuèe otac koji me posla; i ja æu ga vaskrsnuti u pošljednji dan.

Commemorations

Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)

The holy Thalelaeus is counted as one of the Unmercenary Physicians. He was a physician, born in Lebanon to a Berucius (a bishop) and Romylia. During the persecutions by the Emperor Numerian, he fled to Cilicia, but was captured and brought before Theodore, the governor. When Thalelaeus boldly confessed Christ, the cruel governor ordered two soldiers, Alexander and Asterius, to bore holes through his leg-bones, pass a rope through them, and hang him from a tree. But the executioners, by the power of God, were momentarily deprived of their wits and bored through a wooden plank instead, which they hung in the tree. The governor angrily ordered that the soldiers be flogged; during their flogging they cried out: ‘The Lord is alive to us; from now on, we are become Christians. We believe in Christ, and suffer for Him.’ Hearing these words, the governor ordered that both be beheaded. He then seized their awl and attempted to bore through Thalelaeus’ legs himself; but his hand suddenly became paralyzed. The compassionate physician prayed to Christ and healed his persecutor’ hand. His heart still hardened, the governor next ordered that the Saint be thrown into water and drowned; but he survived. Next he was thrown to wild beasts, but they licked his feet and rubbed tamely against him. Finally the holy Martyr was beheaded.

Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

He was born in Moscow in 1292. In 1354 he was ordained Metropolitan of Moscow by Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople. He founded several monasteries, including the first women’s monastery in Moscow. He translated the Holy Gospel from Greek into Slavonic. At that time Russia was under the rule of the Tartars, and St Alexis twice visited the Tartar Khan to plead with him to ease the oppression of the Russian people. On one of these visits he healed Taidula, the Khan’s wife. He founded the Chudov Monastery in Moscow on land given him by the Khan and his wife in thanksgiving for this miraculous healing; the Saint’s relics are enshrined at this same monastery. This is the feast of the uncovering of his holy relics in 1431.