Galatians 5.11-21 (Epistle)

11A ja, braæo, ako još obrezanje propovijedam, zašto me gone? Tako se ukide sablazan krstova. 12O da bi otsjeèeni bili oni koji vas kvare! 13Jer ste vi, braæo, na slobodu pozvani: samo da vaša sloboda ne bude na želju tjelesnu, nego iz ljubavi služite jedan drugome. 14Jer se sav zakon izvršuje u jednoj rijeèi, to jest: ljubi bližnjega svojega kao sebe. 15Ali ako se meðu sobom koljete i jedete, gledajte da jedan drugoga ne istrijebite. 16Velim pak: po duhu hodite, i želja tjelesnijeh ne izvršujte. 17Jer tijelo želi protiv duha, a duh protiv tijela; a ovo se protivi jedno drugome, da ne èinite ono šta hoæete. 18Ako li vas duh vodi, nijeste pod zakonom. 19A poznata su djela tjelesna, koja su preljuboèinstvo, kurvarstvo, neèistota, besramnost, 20Idolopoklonstvo, èaranja, neprijateljstva, svaðe, pakosti, srdnje, prkosi, raspre, sablazni, jeresi, 21Zavisti, ubistva, pijanstva, žderanja, i ostala ovakova, za koja vam naprijed kazujem, kao što i kazah naprijed, da oni koji takova èine neæe naslijediti carstva Božijega.

Luke 3.23-4.1 (Gospel)

23I taj Isus imaše oko trideset godina kad poèe; i bješe, kao što se mišljaše, sin Josifa sina Ilijna, 24Sina Matatova, sina Levijna, sina Melhijna, sina Janejeva, sina Josifova, 25Sina Matatijna, sina Amosova, sina Naumova, sina Eslijna, sina Nangejeva, 26Sina Maatova, sina Matatijna, sina Semejina, sina Josifova, sina Judina, 27Sina Joanina, sina Risina, sina Zorovavelova, sina Salatiilova, sina Nirijna, 28Sina Melhijna, sina Adijna, sina Kosamova, sina Irova, 29Sina Josijna, sina Eliezerova, sina Jorimova, sina Matatova, sina Levijna, 30Sina Simeunova, sina Judina, sina Josifova, sina Jonanova, sina Eliakimova, 31Sina Melejina, sina Mainanova, sina Matatina, sina Natanova, sina Davidova, 32Sina Jesejeva, sina Ovidova, sina Voozova, sina Salmonova, sina Naasonova, 33Sina Aminadavova, sina Aramova, sina Esromova, sina Faresova, sina Judina, 34Sina Jakovljeva, sina Isakova, sina Avraamova, sina Tarina, sina Nahorova, 35Sina Seruhova, sina Ragavova, sina Falekova, sina Everova, sina Salina, 36Sina Kainanova, sina Arfaksadova, sina Simova, sina Nojeva, sina Lamehova, 37Sina Matusalina, sina Enohova, sina Jaredova, sina Maleleilova, sina Kainanova, 38Sina Enosova, sina Sitova, sina Adamova, sina Božijega.

1Isus pak pun Duha svetoga vrati se od Jordana, i odvede ga Duh u pustinju,

Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon of Synnada (278)

Saints Trophimus and Sabbatius came to Antioch during a great festival of Apollo and Daphne. Sorrowing for the blindness of the people they presented themselves to Atticus, the governor, and announced that they were Christians. Sabbatius was tortured so cruelly that he died in his sufferings; Trophimus was sent to Synnada, where he in turn was tortured, then imprisoned barely alive. An official of that city, Dorymedon, was moved to pity and came to the prison to care for Trophimus. (The Great Horologion says that he was still a pagan at the time, the Prologue that he was a secret Christian). When a pagan festival came, Dorymedon refused to worship the idols and proclaimed himself a Christian. He and Trophimus together were tortured, thrown to wild beasts (who would not touch them), and finally beheaded.

Holy Martyr Zosimas the Hermit of Cilicia (4th c.)

Dometian, a prince and a fierce persecutor of Christians, was hunting in the mountains when he came upon an old man surrounded by wild beasts, who were as gentle and tame as lambs in his presence. When asked who he was, the old man answered that he was Zosimas, a Christian who had left the persecutors in the city to live among the beasts instead. Dometian, hearing that Zosimas was a Christian, ordered him seized and bound, and subjected him to many tortures. When the holy man was wounded and beaten all over, the prince tied a rock around his neck and hanged him from a tree, mocking him with the words ‘Command a wild beast to come, then we will all believe!’ Zosimas prayed, and at once a large lion appeared, came up to Zosimas, and took the weight of the rock on its head to ease the martyr’s sufferings. The terrified prince freed Zosimas, who died of his wounds not long afterward.