Romans 7.14-8.2 (Epistle)

14Jer znamo da je zakon duhovan; a ja sam tjelesan, prodan pod grijeh: 15Jer ne znam šta èinim, jer ne èinim ono šta hoæu, nego na što mrzim ono èinim. 16Ako li ono èinim šta neæu, hvalim zakon da je dobar. 17A ovo više ja ne èinim nego grijeh koji živi u meni. 18Jer znam da dobro ne živi u meni, to jest u tijelu mojemu. Jer htjeti imam u sebi, ali uèiniti dobro ne nalazim. 19Jer dobro šta hoæu ne èinim, nego zlo što neæu ono èinim. 20A kad èinim ono što neæu, veæ ja to ne èinim nego grijeh koji živi u meni. 21Nalazim dakle zakon, kad hoæu dobro da èinim, da me na zlo nagoni. 22Jer imam radost u zakonu Božijemu po unutrašnjemu èovjeku; 23Ali vidim drugi zakon u udima svojima, koji se suproti zakonu uma mojega, i zarobljava me zakonom grjehovnijem koji je u udima mojima. 24Ja nesreæni èovjek! Ko æe me izbaviti od tijela smrti ove? 25Zahvaljujem Bogu svojemu kroz Isusa Hrista Gospoda našega. Tako dakle ja sam umom svojijem služim zakonu Božijemu a tijelom zakonu grjehovnome.

1Nikakva dakle sad nema osuðenja onima koji su u Hristu Isusu i ne hode po tijelu nego po Duhu. 2Jer zakon duha koji oživljava u Hristu Isusu, oprostio me je od zakona grjehovnoga i smrti.

Matthew 10.9-15 (Gospel)

9Ne nosite zlata ni srebra ni mjedi u pojasima svojijem, 10Ni torbe na put, ni dvije haljine ni obuæe ni štapa; jer je poslenik dostojan svoga jela. 11A kad u koji grad ili selo uðete, ispitajte ko je u njemu dostojan, i ondje ostanite dok ne iziðete. 12A ulazeæi u kuæu nazovite joj: mir kuæi ovoj. 13I ako bude kuæa dostojna, doæi æe mir vaš na nju; a ako li ne bude dostojna, mir æe se vaš k vama vratiti. 14A ako vas ko ne primi niti posluša rijeèi vašijeh, izlazeæi iz kuæe ili iz grada onoga otresite prah s nogu svojijeh. 15Zaisto vam kažem: lakše æe biti zemlji Sodomskoj i Gomorskoj u dan strašnoga suda negoli gradu onome.

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)

Noted in his own time for his wisdom and virtue, he was called Eubolos, meaning “of good counsel.” He was among the first to oppose the heretical writings of Origen. He was bishop in Patara (according to some sources) or Olympia (according to others), then of Tyre in Phoenecia. Under the Emperor Maximinus, he was attacked by the pagans and received the crown of martyrdom in Chalkis in Greece.

St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)

For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he remained until his death in 1363. He wrote the definitive lives of St Gregory the Sinaite and St Theodosius of Trnovo. He was known to St Maximos Kapsokalyvia (the Hut-burner), who foretold his death: On his final journey to Serbia, on which he died, the Patriarch stopped on Mt Athos, where St Maximos saw him and said, “This elder will not see his flock again, because I hear behind him the hymn over the grave, ‘Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way…’”

Blessed Studios (5th c.)

He was a prominent nobleman and consul in Constantinople. In the City he founded both the Church of St John the Forerunner in 463, and the monastery thereafter called the Studion in honor of him. The Studion monastery nurtured a long line of ascetics, teachers, and martyrs; perhaps the best known is St Theodore the Studite (November 11), the great defender of the holy icons. The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.