24. август 2028.
Thursday of the 12nd week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)
New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)
Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 7.1-10 (Epistle)

1Imajuæi dakle ovaka obeæanja, o ljubazni! da oèistimo sebe od svake poganštine tijela i duha, i da tvorimo svetinju u strahu Božijemu. 2Primite nas, nikome ne uèinismo nažao, nikoga ne pokvarismo, nikoga ne zanesosmo. 3Ne govorim na osuðenje, jer prije rekoh da ste u srcima našijem, da bih s vama i umro i življeo. 4Vrlo slobodno govorim k vama, mnogo se hvalim vama, napunio sam se utjehe, izobilan sam radošæu pored sviju briga našijeh. 5Jer kad doðosmo u Maæedoniju, nikaka mira nemaše tijelo naše, nego u svemu bijaše u nevolji: spolja borbe, iznutra strah. 6Ali Bog, koji tješi ponižene, utješi nas dolaskom Titovijem. 7A ne samo dolaskom njegovijem, nego i utjehom kojom se on utješi za vas kazujuæi vašu želju, vaše plakanje, vaše staranje za mene, tako da se još veæma obradovah. 8Jer ako sam vas i ražalio poslanicom, ne kajem se, ako se i bijah raskajao: jer vidim da ona poslanica, ako i za malo, ražali vas. 9Ali se sad radujem, ne što biste žalosni, nego što se ožalostiste na pokajanje: jer se ožalostiste po Bogu, da od nas ni u èemu ne štetujete. 10Jer žalost koja je po Bogu donosi za spasenije pokajanje, za koje se nigda ne kaje; a žalost ovoga svijeta smrt donosi.

Mark 1.29-35 (Gospel)

29I odmah izišavši iz zbornice doðoše u dom Simonov i Andrijin s Jakovom i Jovanom. 30A tašta Simonova ležaše od groznice; i odmah kazaše mu za nju. 31I pristupivši podiže je uzevši je za ruku i pusti je groznica odmah, i služaše im. 32A kad bi pred veèe, pošto sunce zaðe, donošahu k njemu sve bolesnike i bijesne. 33I sav grad bijaše se sabrao k vratima. 34I iscijeli mnoge bolesnike od razliènijeh bolesti, i ðavole mnoge istjera, i ne dadijaše ðavolima da kazuju da ga poznavahu. 35A ujutru vrlo rano ustavši iziðe, i otide nasamo, i ondje se moljaše Bogu.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)

He was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian, and worked with the Apostle Paul, and is himself named as an Apostle though he is not one of the Seventy. He travelled widely in the ministry of the Gospel of Christ, suffering many imprisonments and tortures. He died in Sebastia, the place of his birth. The Prologue says that he was beheaded, the Great Horologion that he reposed in peace “in deep old age.”

New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)

This recent Equal to the Apostles was born in Mega Dendron (Great Tree) in Aetolia. He became a monk on Mt Athos, where he lived and prayed for many years. But he was troubled by the ignorance of the Gospel that had fallen on many of the Orthodox people, living under the oppression of the Ottoman Turks. He went to Constantinople, where he studied the rhetorical arts and received the blessing of Patriarch Seraphim II to preach the Gospel. He travelled throughout Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania, preaching at every town he visited. Often not only Greeks but many Muslims would come to hear him, so great was his reputation for holiness. Though he always sought the blessing of the local bishop and the local Turkish governor before he preached in an area, his strong condemnations of dishonest business practices aroused the enmity of Orthodox Christian and Jewish merchants, who falsely accused him to the authorities. He was strangled by the Turks and thrown into a river in Albania, but his wonderworking relics were preserved. He reposed at the age of sixty-five.

Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

See December 21 for his life.