1 Corinthians 2.9-3.8 (Epistle)

9Nego kao što je pisano: što oko ne vidje, i uho ne èu, i u srce èovjeku ne doðe, ono ugotovi Bog onima, koji ga ljube. 10A nama je Bog otkrio Duhom svojijem; jer Duh sve ispituje, i dubine Božije. 11Jer ko od ljudi zna šta je u èovjeku osim duha èovjeèijega koji živi u njemu? Tako i u Bogu što je niko ne zna osim Duha Božijega. 12A mi ne primismo duha ovoga svijeta, nego Duha koji je iz Boga, da znamo što nam je darovano od Boga; 13Koje i govorimo ne rijeèima što je nauèila èovjeèija premudrost, nego što uèi Duh sveti; i duhovne stvari duhovno radimo. 14A tjelesni èovjek ne razumije što je od Duha Božijega; jer mu se èini ludost i ne može da razumije, jer treba duhovno da se razgleda. 15Duhovni pak sve razgleda, a njega sama niko ne razgleda. 16Jer ko pozna um Gospodnji da ga pouèi? A mi um Hristov imamo.

1I ja, braæo, ne mogoh s vama govoriti kao s duhovnima nego kao s tjelesnima, kao s malom djecom u Hristu. 2Mlijekom vas napojih a ne jelom, jer još ne mogaste, i ni sad još ne možete, 3Jer ste još tjelesni. Jer gdje su meðu vama zavisti i svaðe i nesloge, nijeste li tjelesni, i ne živite li po èovjeku? 4Jer kad govori ko: ja sam Pavlov; a drugi: ja sam Apolov; nijeste li tjelesni? 5Ko je dakle Pavle a ko li Apolo do samo sluge kroz koje vjerovaste, kao što i svakome Gospod dade? 6Ja posadih, Apolo zali, a Bog dade te uzraste. 7Tako niti je onaj što koji sadi, ni onaj koji zaljeva, nego Bog koji daje te raste. 8A onaj koji sadi i koji zaljeva jednaki su; i svaki æe primiti svoju platu po svojemu trudu.

Matthew 13.31-36 (Gospel)

31Drugu prièu kaza im govoreæi: carstvo je nebesko kao zrno gorušièno koje uzme èovjek i posije na njivi svojoj, 32Koje je istina najmanje od sviju sjemena, ali kad uzraste, veæe je od svega povræa, i bude drvo da ptice nebeske dolaze, i sjedaju na njegovijem granama. 33Drugu prièu kaza im: carstvo je nebesko kao kvasac koji uzme žena i metne u tri kopanje brašna dok sve ne uskisne. 34Sve ovo u prièama govori Isus ljudima, i bez prièe ništa ne govoraše im: 35Da se zbude što je rekao prorok govoreæi: otvoriæu u prièama usta svoja, kazaæu sakriveno od postanja svijeta. 36Tada ostavi Isus ljude, i doðe u kuæu. I pristupiše k njemu uèenici njegovi govoreæi: kaži nam prièu o kukolju na njivi.

Martyr Hyacinth of Caesarea in Cappadocia, and those with him (108)

He was a young courtier to the Emperor Trajan, and a secret Christian. When the Emperor and his court were offering sacrifice to the idols, Hyacinth stood apart; he was noticed and brought before the Emperor where, when interrogated, he proclaimed himself a Christian and refused to make sacrifice to the pagan gods. For this he was brutally whipped, then thrown into prison, where the Emperor ordered that he be given only food that had been sacrificed to idols. This Hyacinth refused to eat and, after eight days, died in prison.

Our Holy Father Isaiah the Solitary (491)

One of the Desert Fathers, he lived in asceticism first at Scetis in Egypt, then in Palestine; he died in Gaza. His instructive writings are often quoted by the Fathers.

Abba Isaiah said: The crown of all good works consists in this: that a man place all his hope in God, that he flee to Him once and for all with all his heart and strength, that he be filled with compassion for all and weep before God, imploring His help and mercy.

Our Holy Father Alexander, founder of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (430)

“Born in Asia and educated in Constantinople, he went into the army after completing his studies and became an officer. Reading the Holy Scriptures, he came upon the Saviour’s words: ‘If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell all thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow Me’ (Matt. 19:21). These words made such an impression on him that he sold and gave away all that he had, and went off to the desert. After long asceticism and striving for purification, he founded the community of the ‘Wakeful Ones’ (Acoemetae) with a special rule. According to this rule, the services in the church continued day and night in unbroken sequence. The brethren were divided into six groups, each having its appointed hours of day or night to go to church and take over the reading and singing from the previous group. He travelled a great deal over the East, bringing people to faith in Christ, disputing with heretics, working miracles by God’s grace and growing old in the service of the Lord Jesus. He finished his earthly course in Constantinople in the year 430, where his relics revealed the miraculous power and glory with which God had glorified His holy servant.” (Prologue)

Our Father among the Saints Anatolios, Archbishop of Constantinople (458)

He was a priest from Alexandria. At the ‘Robber Council’ at Ephesus in 449, Dioscoros, the monophysite who occupied the Patriarchal throne in Alexandria, had Anatolios installed as Patriarch of Constantinople, thinking that he would prove an ally. But Anatolios quickly emerged as a fervent champion of Orthodoxy: he convened a council of bishops just before the Council of Chalcedon in 451, at which Pope Leo’s Orthodox “Tome” (see February 18) was approved, though Dioscoros had not allowed it to be read at the Robber Council. At the Council of Chalcedon, Anatolios condemned Nestorius, Eutyches, and his frustrated patron Dioscoros. He reposed in peace in 458.

Anatolios is believed to be the author of the ‘Anatolian Stichera’ found in the weekly Vespers and Matins services; but these may have been composed by another Anatolios, a monk and a disciple of St Theodore the Studite.