Orthodox Calendar

29. август 2027.
10th Sunday after Pentecost

Fast — Strict Fast (Wine and Oil)

Feasts

  • Beheading of St John the Baptist

Commemorations

  • The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John
  • Our Holy Mother Theodora of Salonica (879)

Scripture Readings

Composite 8 - Isaiah 40, 41, 45, 48, 54 (Vespers)

1Thus says the Lord: Comfort, comfort my people, says God. Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem. Comfort her, because her humiliation has been completed; for her has sin has been abolished, because she has received from the Lord’s hand double for her sins. A voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God. Every valley will be filled and every mountain and hill made low; what is crooked will become straight, and the rough ways will be made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God. Go up onto a high mountain, you who bring good tidings to Sion; lift up your voice with strength, you who bring good tidings to Jerusalem. Lift it up, do not be afraid. I the Lord God, I, the God of Israel, will hearken and will not forsake them; but I will open rivers from the mountains and springs in the middle of plains. I will turn the wilderness into water meadows and the thirsty earth with water courses. Let the heavens rejoice from on high and let the clouds rain justice. Let the earth sprout and blossom with mercy and justice. Announce a voice of gladness to the end of the earth and let this be heard: Say that the Lord has delivered his servant Jacob. And if they thirst through deserts, he will bring water for them from a rock. Rejoice you barren who have never given birth, break out and shout, you who have never known birth pangs, for the children of the deserted are more than those of her who has a husband.

Composite 9 - Malachi 3, 4 (Vespers)

1Thus says the Lord Almighty: See, I am sending my Angel, my messenger, before your face, who will prepare your way before you. And the Lord whom you seek will come to his temple. And who will endure the day of his entrance? And who will withstand at his appearing? Because he will enter like fire in a smelting furnace and like the lye of launderers. And he will come to you in judgement; and he will be a swift witness against the wicked and against adulteresses and against those swear falsely in his name and those who do not fear him, says the Lord Almighty. Because I am the Lord your God, and I have not changed and you, children of Jacob, have perverted the laws and not kept them. Therefore turn back to me and I will turn back to you, says the Lord Almighty. And all the nations will call you blessed and you will know that I am the Lord who discern between just and lawless on the day on which I make a peculiar possession of those who love me. Know then and remember the law of Moses my servant, as I gave him commandment on Horeb, to all Israel ordinances and judgements. And see, I will send you Elias the Thesbite, before the great and manifest day of the Lord comes; he will turn again the heart of father to son and of a man to his neighbour, lest when I come I smite the earth grievously, says the Lord Almighty, God the Holy One of Israel.

Composite 3 - Wisdom of Solomon 4, 5 (Vespers)

1A just man if he comes to his end will be at rest. A just man who dies will condemn the ungodly who are alive; for they will see the end of a just man and will not understand what they counselled concerning him. For the Lord will break the ungodly, render them voiceless and cast them headlong, and he will shake them from the foundations and they will be utterly worsted in sorrow, and their memory shall perish. They shall come with fear at the accounting of their sins, and their iniquities will convict them to their face. Then the just will stand with much boldness in the face of those who afflicted him and made his toils of no account. When they see this they will be troubled with great fear and will be amazed at the wonder of his salvation. For they will say as they repent and with anguish they will groan and say: Is this he whom we fools once made a laughing stock and a byword of reproach? We reckoned his life folly and his end dishonour. How has he been numbered among the children of God and his lot with the Saints? Therefore we have erred from the way of truth and the light of righteousness has not shone on us and the sun has not dawned on us. We have been filled with paths of lawlessness and destruction and journeyed through trackless paths, but have not known the way of the Lord.

John 21.1-14 (10th Matins Gospel)

1Poslije toga opet se javi Isus uèenicima svojijem na moru Tiverijadskom. A javi se ovako: 2Bijahu zajedno Simon Petar i Toma koji se zvaše Blizanac, i Natanailo iz Kane Galilejske, i sinovi Zevedejevi, i druga dvojica od uèenika njegovijeh. 3Reèe im Simon Petar: idem da lovim ribu. Rekoše mu: idemo i mi s tobom. Onda iziðoše i odmah sjedoše u laðu, i onu noæ ne uhvatiše ništa. 4A kad bi jutro, stade Isus na brijegu; ali uèenici ne poznaše da je Isus. 5A Isus im reèe: djeco! eda što imate za jelo? Odgovoriše mu: nemamo. 6A on im reèe: bacite mrežu s desne strane laðe, i naæi æete. Onda baciše, i veæ ne mogahu izvuæi je od mnoštva ribe. 7Onda uèenik onaj koga ljubljaše Isus reèe Petru: to je Gospod. A Simon Petar kad èu da je Gospod, zapreže se košuljom, jer bješe go, i skoèi u more. 8A drugi uèenici doðoše na laði, jer ne bješe daleko od zemlje nego oko dvjesta lakata, vukuæi mrežu s ribom. 9Kad dakle izljezoše na zemlju, vidješe oganj naložen, i na njemu metnutu ribu i hljeb. 10Isus im reèe: prinesite od ribe što sad uhvatiste. 11A Simon Petar uðe i izvuèe mrežu na zemlju punu velikijeh riba sto i pedeset i tri; i od tolikoga mnoštva ne prodrije se mreža. 12Isus im reèe: hodite objedujte. A nijedan od uèenika ne smedijaše da ga pita: ko si ti? videæi da je Gospod. 13A doðe i Isus, i uze hljeb, i dade im, tako i ribu. 14Ovo se veæ treæi put javi Isus uèenicima svojijem pošto ustade iz mrtvijeh.

1 Corinthians 4.9-16 (Epistle)

9Jer mislim da Bog nas apostole najstražnje postavi, kao one koji su na smrt osuðeni; jer bismo gledanje i svijetu i anðelima i ljudima. 10Mi smo budale Hrista radi, a vi ste mudri u Hristu; mi slabi, a vi jaki; vi slavni, a mi sramotni. 11Do ovoga èasa i gladujemo, i trpimo žeðu, i golotinju, i muke, i potucamo se, 12I trudimo se radeæi svojijem rukama. Kad nas psuju, blagosiljamo; kad nas gone, trpimo; 13Kad hule na nas, molimo; postasmo kao smetlište svijeta, po kojemu svi gaze dosad. 14Ne pišem ja ovo da posramim vas, nego vas uèim kao svoju ljubaznu djecu. 15Jer ako imate i trista uèitelja u Hristu, ali nemate mnogo otaca. Jer vas ja u Hristu Isusu rodih jevanðeljem. 16Nego vas molim, ugledajte se na mene kao i ja na Hrista.

Acts 13.25-33 (Epistle, Forerunner)

25I kad svršivaše Jovan teèenje svoje, govoraše: ko mislite da sam ja nijesam ja; nego evo ide za mnom, kome ja nijesam dostojan razdriješiti remena na obuæi njegovoj. 26Ljudi braæo! sinovi roda Avraamova, i koji se meðu vama Boga boje! vama se posla rijeè ovoga spasenija. 27Jer oni što žive u Jerusalimu, i knezovi njihovi, ne poznaše ovoga i glasove proroèke koji se èitaju svake subote osudivši ga izvršiše. 28I ne našavši ni jedne krivice smrtne moliše Pilata da ga pogubi. 29I kad svršiše sve što je pisano za njega, skinuše ga s drveta i metnuše u grob. 30A Bog vaskrse ga iz mrtvijeh. 31I pokaziva se mnogo dana onima što izlaziše s njim iz Galileje u Jerusalim, koji su sad svjedoci njegovi pred narodom. 32I mi vam javljamo obeæanje koje bi ocevima našima da je ovo Bog ispunio nama, djeci njihovoj, podignuvši Isusa; 33Kao što je napisano i u drugom psalmu: ti si moj sin, ja te danas rodih.

Matthew 17.14-23 (Gospel)

14I kad doðoše k narodu, pristupi k njemu èovjek klanjajuæi mu se 15I govoreæi: Gospode! pomiluj sina mojega; jer o mijeni bjesni i muèi se vrlo; jer mnogo puta pada u vatru, i mnogo puta u vodu. 16I dovedoh ga uèenicima tvojijem, i ne mogoše ga iscijeliti. 17A Isus odgovarajuæi reèe: o rode nevjerni i pokvareni! dokle æu biti s vama? dokle æu vas trpljeti? Dovedite mi ga amo. 18I zaprijeti mu Isus; i ðavo iziðe iz njega; i ozdravi momèe od onoga èasa. 19Tada pristupiše uèenici k Isusu i nasamo rekoše mu: zašto ga mi ne mogosmo izgnati? 20A Isus reèe im: za nevjerstvo vaše. Jer vam kažem zaista: ako imate vjere koliko zrno gorušièno, reæi æete gori ovoj: prijeði odavde tamo, i prijeæi æe, i ništa neæe vam biti nemoguæe. 21A ovaj se rod izgoni samo molitvom i postom. 22A kad su hodili po Galileji, reèe im Isus: predaæe se sin èovjeèij u ruke ljudske; 23I ubiæe ga, i treæi dan ustaæe. I neveseli bijahu vrlo.

Mark 6.14-30 (Gospel, Forerunner)

14I zaèu car Irod za Isusa jer njegovo ime bijaše se razglasilo i reèe: Jovan krstitelj iz mrtvijeh usta, zato èini èudesa. 15Drugi govorahu: to je Ilija. A drugi govorahu: to je prorok ili kao koji od proroka. 16A kad èu Irod, reèe: to je Jovan koga sam ja posjekao, on usta iz mrtvijeh. 17Jer ovaj Irod posla te uhvatiše Jovana, i svezavši baci ga u tamnicu Irodijade radi žene Filipa brata svojega, jer se oženi njom. 18Jer Jovan govoraše Irodu: ne možeš ti imati žene brata svojega. 19A Irodijada rasrdi se na njega, i šæaše da ga ubije, ali ne mogaše. 20Jer se Irod bojaše Jovana znajuæi ga da je èovjek pravedan i svet, i èuvaše ga, i mnogo koješta èinjaše kako mu on reèe, i rado ga slušaše. 21I dogodi se dan zgodan, kad Irod na dan svoga roðenja davaše veèeru knezovima svojijem i vojvodama i starješinama Galilejskijem. 22I ušavši kæi Irodijadina i igravši i ugodivši Irodu i gostima njegovijem reèe car djevojci: išti u mene šta god hoæeš, i daæu ti. 23I zakle joj se: što god zaišteš u mene daæu ti, da bi bilo i do po carstva moga. 24A ona izišavši reèe materi svojoj: šta æu iskati? A ona reèe: glavu Jovana krstitelja. 25I odmah ušavši brzo k caru zaiska govoreæi: hoæu da mi daš sad na krugu glavu Jovana krstitelja. 26I zabrinu se car, ali kletve radi i gostiju svojijeh ne htje joj odreæi. 27I odmah posla car dželata, i zapovjedi da donese glavu njegovu. 28A on otišavši posijeèe ga u tamnici, i donese glavu njegovu na krugu, i dade djevojci, a djevojka dade je materi svojoj. 29I èuvši uèenici njegovi doðoše i uzeše tijelo njegovo, i metnuše ga u grob. 30I skupiše se apostoli k Isusu, i javiše mu sve i što uèiniše i šta ljude nauèiše.

Commemorations

The Beheading of the Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John

The story is told in the Gospels, and cannot be told better here. Today is kept as a strict fast day, on whatever day of the week it falls. Because the holy Forerunner’s head was brought to Herod on a platter, it is a pious custom not to eat anything from a plate or platter today.

Our Holy Mother Theodora of Salonica (879)

“A wealthy and devout woman, she lived on the island of Aegina, but, when the Arabs over-ran the island, she moved to Salonica. There, she gave her only daughter to a monastery, where she received the monastic name Theopista. Her husband Theodorinus died very soon, and then Theodora became a nun. She was a great ascetic. She often heard angelic singing, and would say to her sisters: ‘Don’t you hear how wonderfully the angels are singing in heavenly light?’ She entered into rest in 879, and a healing myrrh flowed from her body, which gave healing to many.