Orthodox Calendar

28. јун 2028.
Wednesday of the 4th week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast

Commemorations

  • Sts Sergius and Herman (1353), abbots of Valaam
  • Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"
  • Translation of the Relics (412)of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus & John
  • Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.)

Scripture Readings

Romans 11.2-12 (Epistle)

2Ne odbaci Bog naroda svojega, koji naprijed pozna. Ili ne znate šta govori pismo za Iliju kako se tuži Bogu na Izrailja govoreæi: 3Gospode! proroke tvoje pobiše i oltare tvoje raskopaše, a ja ostah jedan i traže dušu moju da je izvade. 4A šta mu govori Božij odgovor? Ostavih sebi sedam hiljada ljudi koji ne prekloniše koljena pred Vaalom. 5Tako dakle i u sadašnje vrijeme ostatak bi po izboru blagodati. 6Ako li je po blagodati, onda nije od djela, jer blagodat veæ ne bi bila blagodat; ako li je od djela nije više blagodat, jer djelo veæ ne bi bilo djelo. 7Šta dakle? Šta iskaše Izrailj ono ne dobi; a izbor dobi; ostali pak zaslijepiše. 8Kao što je napisano: dade im Bog duha neosjetljivoga, oèi da ne vide, i uši da ne èuju do samoga današnjega dana. 9I David govori: da bude trpeza njihova zamka i gvožða, i sablazan i plata njima; 10Da se njihove oèi zaslijepe da ne vide, i leða njihova jednako da su pognuta. 11Govorim dakle: eda li se spotakoše da padnu? Bože saèuvaj! Nego je njihova pogrješka spasenje neznabošcima, da bi se i oni razdražili. 12A kad je pogrješka njihova bogatstvo svijetu i šteta njihova bogatstvo neznabošcima, akamoli da se ispune?

Matthew 11.20-26 (Gospel)

20Tada poèe Isus vikati na gradove u kojima su se dogodila najveæa èudesa njegova, pa se nijesu pokajali: 21Teško tebi, Horazine! Teško tebi, Vitsaido! Jer da su u Tiru i Sidonu bila èudesa koja su bila u vama, davno bi se u vreæi i pepelu pokajali. 22Ali vam kažem: Tiru i Sidonu lakše æe biti u dan strašnoga suda nego vama. 23I ti, Kapernaume! koji si se do nebesa podigao do pakla æeš propasti: jer da su u Sodomu bila èudesa što su u tebi bila, ostao bi do današnjeg dana. 24Ali vam kažem da æe zemlji Sodomskoj lakše biti u dan strašnoga suda nego tebi. 25U to vrijeme odgovori Isus, i reèe: hvalim te, oèe, Gospode neba i zemlje, što si ovo sakrio od premudrijeh i razumnijeh a kazao si prostima. 26Da, oèe, jer je tako bila volja tvoja.

Commemorations

Sts Sergius and Herman (1353), abbots of Valaam

After helping to establish Orthodoxy among the Karelian Finns, they founded the famous Valaam Monastery on Lake Ladoga in northern Russia. Both reposed in the same year.

Synaxis of the Icon of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos "Of the Three Hands"

Saint John of Damascus (December 4), the great defender of Orthodoxy against the iconoclasts, was falsely accused of plotting against the Caliph of Damascus through the intrigues of the iconoclast Emperor Leo the Isaurian (reigned 717-741). The Caliph ordered St John’s hand to be cut off for his suspected treachery. The saint asked for the severed hand, and passed the night praying fervently for aid before an icon of the most holy Theotokos. Waking in the morning, he found his hand miraculously restored, with only a scar around the wrist where it had been completely severed. In thanksgiving, St John had a silver hand mounted on the icon. When he became a monk in the monastery of St Sabbas in the Holy Land, he took the icon with him. It remained there until it was given to St Sabbas (Sava) of Serbia (January 14), who brought it to Serbia. Later it was miraculously taken to the Hilandar Monastery on the Holy Mountain (carried, according to legend, from Serbia to Mt Athos by an unguided donkey), where it may now be found.

Translation of the Relics (412)of the Holy and Wonderworking Unmercenaries Cyrus & John

They are counted among the Unmercenary Physicians. For their lives, see January 31.

Our Holy Father Sennuphius the Standard-Bearer (4th c.)

“A great ascetic and wonderworker of the Egyptian desert, he was a contemporary of Patriarch Theophilus and the Emperor Theodosius the Great. He is called ‘the Standard-Bearer’ because he once helped the Emperor Theodosius to gain a victory over enemy forces by his prayers. When the Emperor summoned him to Constantinople, he replied that he was unable to go, but sent his torn and patched monastic habit and his staff. Going out to battle, the Emperor put on Sennuphius’s habit and carried his staff in his hand, and returned victorious from the battle.” (Prologue)