No Fast
18Niko neka se ne vara: ako ko meðu vama misli da je mudar na ovome svijetu, neka bude lud da bude mudar. 19Jer je premudrost ovoga svijeta ludost pred Bogom, jer je pisano: hvata premudre u njihovu lukavstvu. 20I opet: Gospod zna pomisli mudrijeh da su ništa. 21Zato niko da se ne hvali èovjekom, jer je sve vaše. 22Bio Pavle, ili Apolo, ili Kifa, ili svijet, ili život ili smrt, ili sadašnje, ili buduæe: sve je vaše; 23A vi ste Hristovi a Hristos Božij.
36Tada ostavi Isus ljude, i doðe u kuæu. I pristupiše k njemu uèenici njegovi govoreæi: kaži nam prièu o kukolju na njivi. 37A on odgovarajuæi reèe im: koji sije dobro sjeme ono je sin èovjeèij; 38A njiva je svijet; a dobro sjeme sinovi su carstva, a kukolj sinovi su zla; 39A neprijatelj koji ga je posijao jest ðavo; a žetva je pošljedak ovoga vijeka; a žeteoci su anðeli. 40Kako što se dakle kukolj sabira, i ognjem sažiže, tako æe biti na pošljetku ovoga vijeka. 41Poslaæe sin èovjeèij anðele svoje, i sabraæe iz carstva njegova sve sablazni i koji èine bezakonje. 42I baciæe ih u peæ ognjenu: ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 43Tada æe se pravednici zasjati kao sunce u carstvu oca svojega. Ko ima uši da èuje neka èuje.
He was born in Cilicia to a pious family. He left all worldly things and devoted his life to preaching the Gospel of Christ, for which he was arrested in Ancyra by the governor Sacerdos. When he was commanded to worship the idols or suffer torture, Callinicus replied, ‘Every torture for my God is as welcome to me as bread to a hungry man.’ After harsh torture, the governor had him shod in shoes in which nails had been set pointing upright, and had him driven on foot to the town of Gangra. (The governor was afraid to keep him in Ancyra, since many of the people were turning to Christ through the Saint’s example.) On the way, when the soldiers became thirsty, Callinicus prayed to God and brought forth water from a rock. At Gangra he was thrown alive into a furnace. When the fire was out, his dead body was found completely unharmed.
She was a maiden from Antioch who lived (perhaps as a slave) in the house of Sabina, wife of a Senator. When Seraphima brought the senator’s wife to faith in Christ, the governor summoned Seraphima before him. When she held firm in her faith, he cast her into prison and send several young men to her cell by night to defile her. When they arrived, she was praying to God, and an angel of the Lord appeared before them, clothed in light and bearing a sword; and the young men fell down unconscious. Finally, Seraphima received her martyr’s crown when she was beheaded by the governor’s order. Sabina, the senator’s wife, recovered and buried her body, from which a healing myrrh flowed. This was during the reign of Hadrian.