Galatians 2.6-10 (Epistle)

6A za one koji se brojahu da su nešto, kakovi bili da bili, ja ne marim ništa; jer Bog ne gleda ko je ko; jer oni koji se brojahu kao najstariji, meni ništa ne dodaše; 7Nego nasuprot doznavši da je meni povjereno jevanðelje u neobrezanima, kao Petru u obrezanima 8Jer onaj koji pomaže Petru u apostolstvu meðu obrezanima onaj pomaže i meni meðu neznabošcima 9I poznavši blagodat koja je meni dana, Jakov i Kifa i Jovan, koji se brojahu da su stubovi, dadoše desnice meni i Varnavi, i pristadoše da mi propovijedamo u neznabošcima, a oni u obrezanima; 10Samo da se opominjemo siromašnijeh, za koje sam se i starao tako èiniti.

Mark 5.22-24, 35-6.1 (Gospel)

22I gle, doðe jedan od starješina zbornièkijeh po imenu Jair; i vidjevši ga pade pred noge njegove. 23I moljaše ga vrlo govoreæi: kæi je moja na smrti; da doðeš i da metneš na nju ruke da ozdravi i živi. 24I poðe s njim; i za njim iðaše naroda mnogo i turkahu ga. 35Još on govoraše, a doðoše od starješine zbornièkoga govoreæi: kæi tvoja umrije; šta veæ trudiš uèitelja? 36A Isus odmah èuvši rijeè što rekoše reèe starješini: ne boj se, samo vjeruj. 37I ne dade za sobom iæi nikome osim Petra i Jakova i Jovana brata Jakovljeva. 38I doðe u kuæu starješine zbornièkoga, i vidje vrevu i plaè i jauk veliki. 39I ušavši reèe im: šta ste uzavreli te plaèete? Djevojka nije umrla, nego spava. 40I potsmijevahu mu se. A on istjeravši sve uze oca djevojèina i mater i koji bijahu s njim, i uðe gdje ležaše djevojka. 41I uzevši djevojku za ruku reèe joj: Talita kumi, koje znaèi: djevojko, tebi govorim, ustani. 42I odmah usta djevojka i hoðaše; a bješe od dvanaest godina. I zaèudiše se èudom velikijem. 43I zaprijeti im vrlo da niko ne dozna za to, i reèe: podajte joj nek jede.

1I iziðe odande, i doðe na svoju postojbinu; i za njim idoše uèenici njegovi.

Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs

On this day are commemorated seventeen holy Serbian hierarchs, beginning with St Sava (Sabbas), first Archbishop of Serbia and Equal to the Apostles. They are:

• St Sava, first Archbishop of Serbia, Equal to the Apostles
• Arsenius, his successor
• Sava II, son of King Stephen the First-Crowned
• Nicodemus, who lived on the Holy Mountain, was abbot of Hilandar Monastery there and Archbishop of Serbia
• Joannicius, patriarch from 1346-1349
• Ephraim, chosen as patriarch against his will in 1376. He crowned Prince Lazar, then renounced the patriarchal throne and retired into solitude
• Spiridon, his successor (+1388)
• Macarius, a great restorer of old churches and monasteries; printed many Church books (+1574)
• Gabriel, a nobleman by birth. The Prologue says that he ‘took part in the Moscow Council under Patriarch Nikhon, because of which he was tortured by the Turks for treason and hanged in 1656.’
• In addition, Eustace, Jacob, Danilo, Sava III, Gregory, John, Maxim and Nikhon.

Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople

St Alexander took part in the First Ecumenical Council as delegate of Patriarch Metrophanes, who was too frail to attend; and succeeded Metrophanes on the Patriarchal throne. By his prayer to God that the Church might be spared the schemings of Arius, Arius was struck dead.

St John is, by one account, St John the Faster (Sept. 2), who reposed in 595; by another, St John Scholasticus (Feb. 21), who reposed in 577.

St Paul was Patriarch for five years, then renounced the Patriarchal throne to take the Great Schema.