24. мај 2027.
Monday of the 4th Sunday of Pascha

No Fast

Commemorations

St Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of the Wonderful Mountain (595)
Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites (1186)
St Vincent of Lerins (445)

Scripture Readings

Acts 10.1-16 (Epistle)

1A u Æesariji bješe jedan èovjek po imenu Kornilije, kapetan od èete koja se zvaše Talijanska. 2Pobožan i bogobojazan sa cijelijem domom svojijem, koji davaše milostinju mnogijem ljudima i moljaše se Bogu bez prestanka; 3On vidje na javi u utvari oko devetoga sahata dnevi anðela Božijega gdje siðe k njemu i reèe mu: Kornilije! 4A on pogledavši na nj i uplašivši se reèe: što je Gospode? A on mu reèe: molitve tvoje i milostinje iziðoše na pamet Bogu; 5I sad pošlji u Jopu ljude i dozovi Simona prozvanoga Petra: 6On stoji u nekoga Simona kožara, kojega je kuæa kod mora: on æe ti kazati rijeèi kojima æeš se spasti ti i sav dom tvoj. 7I kad otide anðeo koji govori Korniliju, dozvavši dvojicu od svojijeh slugu i jednoga pobožna vojnika od onijeh koji mu služahu, 8I kazavši im sve posla ih u Jopu. 9A sjutradan kad oni iðahu putem i približiše se ka gradu, iziðe Petar u gornju sobu da se pomoli Bogu u šesti sahat. 10I ogladnje, i šæaše da jede; a kad mu oni gotovljahu, doðe izvan sebe, 11I vidje nebo otvoreno i sud nekakav gdje silazi na njega, kao veliko platno, zavezan na èetiri roglja i spušta se na zemlju; 12U kome bijahu sva èetvoronožna na zemlji, i zvjerinje i bubine i ptice nebeske. 13I postade glas k njemu: ustani, Petre! pokolji i pojedi. 14A Petar reèe: nipošto, Gospode! jer nikad ne jedoh što pogano ili neèisto. 15I gle, glas opet k njemu drugom: što je Bog oèistio ti ne pogani. 16I ovo bi triput, i sud se opet uze na nebo.

John 6.56-69 (Gospel)

56Koji jede moje tijelo i pije moju krv stoji u meni i ja u njemu. 57Kao što me posla živi otac, i ja živim oca radi; i koji jede mene i on æe življeti mene radi. 58Ovo je hljeb koji siðe s neba: ne kao što vaši ocevi jedoše manu, i pomriješe; koji jede hljeb ovaj življeæe vavijek. 59Ovo reèe u zbornici kad uèaše u Kapernaumu. 60Tada mnogi od uèenika njegovijeh koji slušahu rekoše: ovo je tvrda besjeda! ko je može slušati? 61A Isus znajuæi u sebi da uèenici njegovi vièu na to, reèe im: zar vas ovo sablažnjava? 62A kad vidite sina èovjeèijega da odlazi gore gdje je prije bio? 63Duh je ono što oživljava; tijelo ne pomaže ništa. Rijeèi koje vam ja rekoh duh su i život su. 64Ali imaju neki meðu vama koji ne vjeruju. Jer znadijaše Isus od poèetka koji su što ne vjeruju, i ko æe ga izdati. 65I reèe: zato vam rekoh da niko ne može doæi k meni ako mu ne bude dano od oca mojega. 66Od tada mnogi od uèenika njegovijeh otidoše natrag, i više ne iðahu s njim. 67A Isus reèe dvanaestorici: da neæete i vi otiæi? 68Tada mu odgovori Simon Petar: Gospode! kome æemo iæi? Ti imaš rijeèi vjeènoga života. 69I mi vjerovasmo i poznasmo da si ti Hristos, sin Boga živoga.

Commemorations

St Symeon Stylites (the Younger) of the Wonderful Mountain (595)

He was born in Antioch in 522. His father, John, died in an earthquake, leaving him to be raised by his mother Martha. From his earliest childhood he lived a very ascetic life and was under special protection and guidance of St John the Baptist, who often appeared to him. He became a monk as a young man and, after a vision of the Lord, who appeared to him as a handsome youth and filled his heart to overflowing with love for Christ, he ascended onto a pillar, where he stayed for eighteen years, praying and singing psalms. He then went to the mountain called ‘Wonderful’, where he lived alone in a barren place for ten years; he then ascended another pillar, where he remained in extreme hardship for forty-five years. During this time he became known as a wonder-worker and visionary: the Prologue says ‘The measure of his love for God was such that rare grace was given him, by the help of which he was able to heal every sort of illness, tame wild beasts and perceive the most distant regions of the earth and the hearts of men. He was taken out of the body and saw the heavens, conversed with angels, harried the demons, prophesied, spent thirty days at a time without sleep and even longer without food, receiving nourishment at the hands of angels.’ He reposed at the age of 85; seventy-nine years of his life had been spent in asceticism.

Our Holy Father Nikita Stylites (1186)

As a youth, he was heedless and corrupt; but one day he entered a church and heard the words of Isaiah, ‘Wash you, make you clean’ (Is. 1:16). His life changed completely: he left his family and property to enter a monastery near Pereyaslavl, where he took on a life of severe asceticism. He wore chains and (in the words of the Prologue) ‘shut himself up in a pillar’, for which he was called the Stylite. He was granted the gift of healing and by his prayers restored many who came to him, including Michael, Prince of Chernigov, whom he healed of palsy. Some thieves, seeing his chains and thinking that they were made of silver, killed him one night and made off with the chains. Soon afterward, Saint Nikita appeared to an elder named Simeon and told him to put the chains with him in his grave when they were found.

St Vincent of Lerins (445)

He was born in Toul in Gaul (modern-day France); he was the brother of St Lupus, Bishop of Troyes. He served as a soldier, but eventually became a monk at the monastery of Lerins. There he lived out the remainder of his life, and wrote his Commonitorium, an exposition of the true Orthodox faith; it contains the well-know statement that Christians must hold to the Faith that has been believed “everywhere, always, and by all.” He reposed in peace.