اول قرنتیان ۴.۱-۵ (رساله)

۱پس همگان باید به ما به دیدۀ خادمان مسیح و مباشرانی بنگرند که رازهای خدا به آنان به امانت سپرده شده است. ۲و حال انتظاری که از مباشر می‌رود این است که امین باشد. ۳امّا برای من قضاوت شما یا قضاوت هر دادگاه انسانی دیگر چندان مهم نیست. من حتی خود نیز دربارۀ خویشتن قضاوت نمی‌کنم. ۴زیرا در خود عیبی نمی‌بینم، امّا این مرا بی‌گناه نمی‌سازد. بلکه خداوند است که دربارۀ من قضاوت می‌کند. ۵پس دربارۀ هیچ چیز پیش از وقت قضاوت نکنید تا اینکه خداوند بیاید. او آنچه را که اکنون در تاریکیْ نهان است، در روشنایی عیان خواهد کرد و نیّتهای دلها را آشکار خواهد ساخت. آنگاه تشویق و تمجید هر کس از خود خدا خواهد بود.

متی ۲۳.۱-۱۲ (انجیل)

۱آنگاه عیسی خطاب به مردم و شاگردان خود چنین گفت: ۲«علمای دین و فَریسیان بر مسند موسی نشسته‌اند. ۳پس آنچه به شما می‌گویند، نگاه دارید و به جا آورید؛ امّا همچون آنان عمل نکنید! زیرا آنچه تعلیم می‌دهند، خود به جا نمی‌آورند. ۴بارهای توانفرسا را می‌بندند و بر دوش مردم می‌گذارند، امّا خود حاضر نیستند برای حرکت دادن آن حتی انگشتی تکان دهند. ۵هر چه می‌کنند برای آن است که مردم آنها را ببینند: آیه‌دان‌های خود را بزرگتر و دامن ردای خویش را پهنتر می‌سازند. ۶دوست دارند در ضیافتها بر صدر مجلس بنشینند و در کنیسه‌ها بهترین جای را داشته باشند، ۷و مردم در کوچه و بازار آنها را سلام گویند و ’استاد‘ خطاب کنند. ۸امّا شما ’استاد‘ خوانده مشوید، زیرا تنها یک استاد دارید، و همۀ شما برادرید. ۹هیچ‌کس را نیز بر روی زمین ’پدر‘ مخوانید، زیرا تنها یک پدر دارید که در آسمان است. ۱۰و نیز ’معلم‘ خوانده مشوید، زیرا فقط یک معلم دارید که مسیح است. ۱۱آن که در میان شما از همه بزرگتر است، خدمتگزار شما خواهد بود. ۱۲زیرا هر که خود را بزرگ سازد، پست خواهد شد و هر که خویشتن را فروتن سازد، سرافراز خواهد گردید.

قرار دادن کمربند تئوتکس بسیار مقدس (۳-۴? ۸- ۹?)

At the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos, her sash came into the possession of the Apostle Thomas and after various transfers came to Cappadocia. It was later taken from there to Constantinople, where it was kept in a sealed casket in the Church of the Theotokos at Blachernae, at the time of the Emperor Arcadius (395-408). The casket was not opened until the reign of the Emperor Leo the Wise (886-912), when the Empress Zoe, who was ill, had a vision in which she was told to have the sash placed upon her. The Emperor obtained the blessing of the Patriarch, the sash was placed upon the Empress, and she was immediately healed. Some accounts say that today’s feast celebrates the bringing of the sash to Constantinople; others that it commemorates the miraculous healing of the Empress.

کشیش‌شهید کیپریان, اسقف کارتاژ (۲۵۸)

He was born around 190 to pagan parents in North Africa. Before baptism he was distinguished in Carthage as a teacher of philosophy and rhetoric. He came to faith in Christ and was baptized at a young age; as soon as he became a Christian he abandoned his prestigious teacher’s position, sold his many possessions and gave all his wealth to the poor. He was ordained presbyter in 247, Bishop of Carthage in 248. He was known for his gentleness and paternal care for his flock, combined with firm opposition to heretics. His extensive writings still guide the Church today.

For his confession of Christ, he was beheaded under the Emperor Valerian on September 14; since that is the date of the Exaltation of the Cross, his feast is kept today. At the time of his execution he left twenty-five gold pieces (a huge sum) for the executioner who beheaded him.

قدیس گنادیوس, پاتریارک قسطنطنیه (۴۷۱)

He was known for his gentleness and his ascetical way of life. He would not ordain any man who did not know the Psalter by heart. He presided at a local council in which simony in the Church was anathematized. In his own lifetime he worked miracles, and he was told the time of his death in a vision. The famous monastery of Studion was built in his time, with his blessing. He reposed in peace.

قدیس آیدان لیندیسفارن (۶۵۱)

Around AD 635, Saint Oswald (5 August), King of Northumbria, appealed to the monks of the Monastery of Iona to send missionaries to his mostly-pagan kingdom. (An earlier mission had ended with the death of St Edwin in 633.) The fathers of the monastery chose St Aidan and consecrated him bishop. He founded a monastery (and his episcopal seat) on the island of Lindisfarne, and undertook missionary journeys, always on foot, throughout the kingdom, with King Oswald often accompanying him and serving as his interpreter. He lived in great poverty, using all the gifts he received as alms for the poor or to buy back captives and slaves. He was the spiritual father of St Hilda (17 Nov.), and founded the first women’s monasteries in Northumbria. He reposed in peace in 651, and was buried at Lindisfarne.

Note: Northumbria was an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in what is now northeastern England and southern Scotland.