1 Corinthians 5.9-6.11 (Epistle)

9Pisah vam u poslanici da se ne miješate s kurvarima; 10I to ja ne rekoh za kurvare ovoga svijeta, ili tvrdice, ili hajduke, ili idolopoklonike; jer biste morali iziæi iz svijeta. 11A sad vam pisah da se ne miješate ako koji koji se brat zove, postane kurvar, ili tvrdica, ili idolopoklonik, ili kavgadžija, ili pijanica, ili hajduk; s takovima da i ne jedete. 12Jer šta je meni stalo da sudim i one koji su napolju? Ne sudite li vi one koji su unutra? 13A one koji su napolju sudiæe Bog. Izvadite zloga izmeðu sebe.

1Smije li koji od vas, kad ima tužbu na drugoga, iæi na sud nepravednima, a ne svetima? 2Ne znate li da æe sveti suditi svijetu? Kad æete dakle vi svijetu suditi nijeste li vrijedni suditi manjijem stvarima? 3Ne znate li da æemo anðelima suditi, akamoli stvarima ovoga svijeta? 4A vi kad imate tužbe za stvari ovoga svijeta, uzmete za sudije one koje u crkvi ne broji niko ni u što! 5Na sramotu vašu govorim: zar nema meðu vama nijednoga mudra koji može rasuditi meðu braæom svojom? 6Nego se brat s bratom sudi, i to pred nevjernima! 7I to je veæ vrlo sramno za vas da imate tužbe meðu sobom. Zašto radije ne trpite nepravdu? Zašto radije ne pregorite štetu? 8Nego vi sami èinite nepravdu i štetu, pa još braæi! 9Ili ne znate da nepravednici neæe naslijediti carstva Božijega? Ne varajte se: ni kurvari, ni idolopoklonici, ni preljuboèinci, ni adžuvani, ni muželožnici, 10Ni lupeži, ni lakomci, ni pijanice, ni kavgadžije, ni hajduci, carstva Božijega neæe naslijediti. 11I ovakovi bijaste neki; nego se opraste i posvetiste i opravdaste imenom Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista i Duhom Boga našega.

Matthew 13.54-58 (Gospel)

54I došavši na postojbinu svoju, uèaše ih po zbornicama njihovijem tako da mu se divljahu, i govorahu: otkud ovome premudrost ova i moæi? 55Nije li ovo drvodjeljin sin? ne zove li se mati njegova Marija, i braæa njegova Jakov, i Josija, i Simon, i Juda? 56I sestre njegove nijesu li sve kod nas? Otkud njemu ovo sve? 57I sablažnjavahu se o njega. A Isus reèe im: nema proroka bez èasti osim na postojbini svojoj i u domu svojemu. 58I ne stvori ondje èudesa mnogijeh za nevjerstvo njihovo.

Translation of the relics of the Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (428)

After the First Martyr Stephen was stoned to death, his body was left for the dogs; but his teacher Gamaliel had his body secretly taken to a place outside Jerusalem and buried by night. About the year 427, a Fr Lucian, the parish priest near the place, was told in a dream where the relics of the Protomartyr were buried. He told Patriarch John of Jerusalem, and they went together to the place revealed. Digging there they found a box labeled with the word “Stephen” in Aramaic letters. They took the sacred relics to Jerusalem in solemn procession.

Hieromartyr Stephen, Pope of Rome (257), and those with him

As Bishop of Rome from 254 to 257, he battled the Novatian heresy. By his prayers he once healed Lucilla, the daughter of the Roman tribune Nemesius; for this both father and daughter were baptized into Christ. Saint Stephen and twelve of his priests were beheaded during a celebration of the Liturgy, during the reign of Valerian.

Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool-for-Christ (1552)

At the age of sixteen, he took up the podvig of folly for Christ, in which he continued for seventy-two years, living to the age of eighty-eight. He was homeless, barefood and dressed in tatters, wandering the streets of Moscow. Though mocked by many, he spoke to strangers of their secret sins, rebuked nobles for their hard-heartedness, and slowly became known as a Saint. Tsar Ivan and the Metropolitan of Moscow attended his funeral. He was buried in the church in Moscow that now bears his name.