20. новембар 2025.
Thursday of the 24th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)
Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

Scripture Readings

1 Thessalonians 5.1-8 (Epistle)

1A za èase i vremena, braæo, nije vam trijebe pisati; 2Jer sami znate jamaèno da æe dan Gospodnji doæi kao lupež po noæi. 3Jer kad reku: mir je, i nema se šta bojati, onda æe iznenada napasti na njih pogibao kao bol na trudnu ženu, i neæe uteæi. 4Ali vi, braæo, nijeste u tami da vas dan kao lupež zastane. 5Jer ste vi svi sinovi vidjela i sinovi dana: nijesmo noæi niti tame. 6Tako dakle da ne spavamo kao i ostali, nego da pazimo i da budemo trijezni. 7Jer koji spavaju, u noæi spavaju, i koji se opijaju, u noæi se opijaju. 8Ali mi koji smo sinovi dana da budemo trijezni i obuèeni u oklop vjere i ljubavi, i s kacigom nada spasenija;

Luke 13.1-9 (Gospel)

1U to vrijeme pak doðoše neki i kazaše za Galilejce kojijeh krv pomiješa Pilat sa žrtvama njihovijem. 2I odgovarajuæi Isus reèe im: mislite li da su ti Galilejci bili najgrješniji od sviju Galilejaca, jer tako postradaše? 3Ne, kažem vam, nego ako se ne pokajete, svi æete tako izginuti. 4Ili oni osamnaest što na njih pade kula Siloamska i pobi ih, mislite li da su oni najkrivlji bili od sviju Jerusalimljana? 5Ne, kažem vam, nego ako se ne pokajete, svi æete tako izginuti. 6Kaza im pak ovu prièu: jedan èovjek imadijaše smokvu usaðenu u svome vinogradu, i doðe da traži roda na njoj, i ne naðe. 7Onda reèe vinogradaru: evo treæa godina kako dolazim i tražim roda na ovoj smokvi, i ne nalazim; posijeci je dakle, zašto zemlji da smeta? 8A on odgovarajuæi reèe mu: gospodaru! ostavi je i za ovu godinu dok okopam oko nje i obaspem gnojem; 9Pa da ako rodi: ako li ne, posjeæi æeš je na godinu.

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)

Hieron was a farmer from Tyana in Cappadocia, known for his great bodily strength as well as purity of soul. Hearing of his prowess, imperial soldiers came to draft him into the army. Knowing that he would be required to make sacrifice to the idols, Hieron drove them off with only a wooden stave, then hid in the wilderness. Later, however, he went to the Governor voluntarily and openly confessed his faith in Christ. For this his right hand was cut off and he was imprisoned with thirty-two other believers. As they awaited their end, Hieron strengthened the others in the Faith. All were beheaded together outside Melitene in Armenia.

Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

He was born in Northubria in England around 638. At the age of seven he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24), the abbot. At the age of twenty he traveled to Ireland to live among the holy monks of that land; he spent twelve years there as the spiritual child of St Egbert (also April 24). In 690 St Egbert sent Willibrord as head of a company of twelve monks to take the Gospel to the pagan lands around Frisia. The holy missionary first went to Rome to receive the blessing of Pope Sergius, then with his fellow-monks preached the Gospel throughout Holland and Zealand. In 695 Pope Sergius consecrated Willibrord Archbishop of Utrecht, instructing him to organize the Church throughout that area. As Archbishop, Willibrord continued to labor tirelessly for the spread of the Gospel in those pagan lands; his missionary travels took him as far as Denmark. He reposed in peace in 739 at Echternach Monastery (located in present-day in Luxembourg), having served for forty-four years as a bishop and for most of his life as a monastic. His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage.