10. септембар 2027.
Friday of the 12nd week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora at Nicomedia (305-311)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 7.10-16 (Epistle)

10Jer žalost koja je po Bogu donosi za spasenije pokajanje, za koje se nigda ne kaje; a žalost ovoga svijeta smrt donosi. 11Jer, gle, ovo samo što se po Bogu ožalostiste, koliko uèini staranje meðu vama? kakovo pravdanje, kaku nepovoljnost, kakav strah, kaku želju, kaku revnost, kaku osvetu? U svemu pokazaste se da ste èisti u djelu. 12Jer ako vam i pisah, ne onoga radi koji je skrivio, niti onoga radi kome je krivo uèinjeno, nego da se pokaže meðu vama staranje naše za vas pred Bogom. 13Zato se utješismo utjehom vašom; a još se veæma obradovasmo radosti Titovoj, jer vi svi umiriste duh njegov. 14Jer što sam mu se za vas pohvalio, nijesam se posramio; nego kako je sve istina što govorismo vama, tako i pohvala naša k Titu istinita bi. 15I srce je njegovo puno ljubavi k vama kad se opominje poslušanja sviju vas, kako ste ga sa strahom i drktanjem primili. 16Radujem se dakle što se u svemu smijem osloniti na vas.

Mark 2.18-22 (Gospel)

18I bijahu uèenici Jovanovi i farisejski koji pošæahu; i doðoše i rekoše mu: zašto uèenici Jovanovi i farisejski poste a tvoji uèenici ne poste? 19I reèe im Isus: eda li mogu svatovi postiti dok je ženik s njima? Dokle god imaju sa sobom ženika ne mogu postiti. 20Nego æe doæi dni kad æe se oteti od njih ženik, i tada æe postiti u one dne. 21I niko ne prišiva nove zakrpe na staru haljinu; inaèe æe odadrijeti nova zakrpa od staroga, i gora æe rupa biti. 22I niko ne ljeva nova vina u mjehove stare; inaèe novo vino prodre mjehove, i vino se prolije, i mjehovi propadnu; nego novo vino u nove mjehove ljevati treba.

Commemorations

Martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora at Nicomedia (305-311)

They were three sisters, raised in the Christian faith in Bithynia. Together they withdrew from the world and lived together in virginity on a lonely mountain, devoting themselves to prayer, fasting and labor. Though they wished only to live unknown to the world, their wonderworking gifts were discovered, and many people began to come to them for healing of ailments. In this way word of them reached the governor Fronton, who had them arrested and brought before him. Struck by their beauty (which had only increased despite their fasting and hard labor), the governor tried to flatter them, promising that he would send them to the Emperor to be given in marriage to noblemen. When he saw that this had no effect, the governor threw the sisters into prison. First he had Menodora tortured to death, then brought her two sisters to view her mutilated body, commanding them to deny Christ or meet the same fate. When they refused, they were subjected to the same fate. Christians recovered and buried the bodies of the three holy martyrs.