فیلیپیان ۲.۱۲-۱۶ (رساله)

۱۲پس ای عزیزان، همان‌گونه که همیشه مطیع بوده‌اید، نه تنها در حضور من، بلکه اکنون بسی بیشتر حتی در غیابم، نجات خود را ترسان و لرزان به عمل آورید؛ ۱۳زیرا خداست که با عمل نیرومند خود، هم تصمیم و هم قدرت انجام آنچه را که خشنودش می‌سازد، در شما پدید می‌آورد. ۱۴هر کاری را بدون غرغر و مجادله انجام دهید، ۱۵تا بی‌پیرایه و بی‌آلایش، و فرزندان بی‌عیب خدا باشید، در بین نسلی کج‌رو و منحرف که در میانشان همچون ستارگانْ در این جهان می‌درخشید، ۱۶همچنان که کلام حیات را استوار نگاه داشته‌اید. در این صورت، می‌توانم در روز مسیح مباهات کنم که بیهوده ندویده و عبث محنت نکشیده‌ام.

لوقا ۹.۱۸-۲۲ (انجیل)

۱۸روزی عیسی در خلوت دعا می‌کرد و تنها شاگردانش با او بودند. از ایشان پرسید: «مردم می‌گویند من که هستم؟» ۱۹پاسخ دادند: «برخی می‌گویند یحیای تعمیددهنده هستی، برخی دیگر می‌گویند ایلیایی، و برخی نیز تو را یکی از پیامبران ایام کهن می‌دانند که زنده شده است.» ۲۰از ایشان پرسید: «شما چه؟ شما مرا که می‌دانید؟» پطرس پاسخ داد: «مسیحِ خدا.» ۲۱سپس عیسی ایشان را منع کرد و دستور داد این را به کسی نگویند، ۲۲و گفت: «می‌باید که پسر انسان رنج بسیار کِشد و مشایخ و سران کاهنان و علمای دین ردش کنند و کشته شود و در روز سوّم برخیزد.»

شهید لونگینوس سرباز صدنفری

This is the Centurion who stood at the Cross of Christ and, seeing Him breathe his last, cried out “Truly this was the Son of God” (Matthew 27:54). From that day forth he was a believer, and was soon baptized. According to some accounts, he was one of the guard at the Tomb of Christ, and was one of those whom the Judaean leaders sought to bribe not to tell the news of the Resurrection. But Longinus would not be bribed, so the leaders plotted to kill him. He left the army and went to his homeland of Cappadocia, where he boldly preached Christ. He was beheaded at the instigation of Pontius Pilate.

پدر قابل احترام ما گال, روشنگر سوئیس (۶۴۰)

He was born in Ireland to wealthy parents, who sent him to be educated at the Monastery of Bangor. There he embraced the ascetical life and became a monk. He was one of the twelve monks who traveled with his spiritual father St Columbanus (November 23) as missionaries to Gaul. In time some of the group traveled into pagan lands, up the Rhine river to Lake Zurich. The monks settled on Lake Constance around a chapel dedicated to St Aurelia, which had been taken by the pagans as a shrine; they cleansed and reconsecrated the chapel, which became the center of their new monastery. Saint Gall lived as a hermit, serving the brethren by making nets and catching fish. In 612 St Columbanus went on to Italy with most of his disciples, leaving St Gall and a few others to continue their life. When St Gall delivered Frideburga, the daughter of a local duke, from a demon, he offered the saint a tract of land on the shores of Lake Constance; here was founded the monastery that in later times bore St Gall’s name.

At various times, the holy Gall refused calls to become a bishop, or to take over the abbacy of the great monastery at Luxeuil. To all such requests he answered that he would rather serve than command. He continued living in his isolated monastic community until he reposed in peace in 640, at the age of ninety-nine. In later years, and continuing well into the middle ages, the Monastery of St Gall became famed for the holiness of its monks and for its library.