31. јул 2026.
Friday of the 9th week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

Holy Martyr Emilian (362)
St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 14.26-40 (Epistle)

26Šta æe se dakle èiniti, braæo? Kad se sabirate svaki od vas ima psalam, ima nauku, ima jezik, ima otkrivenje, ima kazivanje; a sve da biva na popravljanje. 27Ako govori ko jezikom, ili po dvojica, ili najviše po trojica, i to poredom; a jedan da kazuje. 28Ako li ne bude nikoga da kazuje, neka æuti u crkvi, a sebi neka govori i Bogu. 29A proroci dva ili tri neka govore, i drugi neka rasuðuju. 30Ako li se otkrije što drugome koji sjedi, neka èeka dok prvi uæuti. 31Jer možete prorokovati svi, jedan po jedan, da se svi uèe, i svi da se tješe. 32I duhovi proroèki pokoravaju se prorocima; 33Jer Bog nije Bog bune, nego mira, kao po svima crkvama svetijeh. 34Žene vaše da æute u crkvama; jer se njima ne dopusti da govore, nego da slušaju, kao što i zakon govori. 35Ako li hoæe èemu da se nauèe, kod kuæe muževe svoje neka pitaju; jer je ružno ženi da govori u crkvi. 36Eda li od vas rijeè Božija iziðe? ili samijem vama doðe? 37Ako ko misli da je prorok ili duhovan, neka razumije što vam pišem, jer su Gospodnje zapovijesti. 38Ako li ko ne razumije, neka ne razumije. 39Zato, braæo moja, starajte se da prorokujete, i ne zabranjujte govoriti jezicima. 40A sve neka biva pošteno i uredno.

Matthew 21.12-14, 17-20 (Gospel)

12I uðe Isus u crkvu Božiju, i izgna sve koji prodavahu i kupovahu po crkvi, i ispremeta trpeze onijeh što mijenjahu novce, i klupe onijeh što prodavahu golubove. 13I reèe im: u pismu stoji: dom moj dom molitve neka se zove; a vi naèiniste od njega peæinu hajduèku. 14I pristupiše k njemu hromi i slijepi u crkvi, i iscijeli ih. 17I ostavivši ih iziðe napolje iz grada u Vitaniju, i zanoæi ondje. 18A ujutru vraæajuæi se u grad ogladnje. 19I ugledavši smokvu jednu kraj puta doðe k njoj, i ne naðe ništa na njoj do lišæa sama, i reèe joj: da nikad na tebi ne bude roda dovijeka. I odmah usahnu smokva. 20I vidjevši to uèenici diviše se govoreæi: kako odmah usahnu smokva!

Commemorations

Holy Martyr Emilian (362)

He was from the town of Dorostolon in Thrace and during the reign of Julian the Apostate became a servant of the governor in that region. Before the time of his martyrdom he was a secret Christian. An imperial legate arrived in the town with orders to seize all Christians, but failed to find any; to show his pleasure he ordered a great feast for the whole town, complete with sacrifices to the pagan gods. On the night before the appointed feast, Emilian went around the town and smashed all the idols with a hammer. The following day there was an uproar, and an innocent villager was seized and charged with the crime. Emilian, seeing this, said to himself ‘If I conceal my action, what sort of use has it been? Shall I not stand before God as the slayer of an innocent man?’ So he presented himself to the legate and confessed what he had done. When the furious official asked Emilian on whose orders he had acted, Emilian replied ‘God and my soul commanded me to destroy those dead pillars that you call gods.’ As punishment, Emilian was subjected to many tortures and finally burned alive.

St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)

Abba Pambo was a contemporary of St Anthony the Great and one of the greatest of the Desert Fathers. He would only eat bread which he had earned by his own labors, plaiting baskets and mats out of reeds. In his later years, he became in appearance like an angel of God: his face shone so that the monks could not look on it. Through long ascetic labor, he was enabled to control his tongue so that no unnecessary word ever passed his lips. He never gave an immediate answer to even the simplest question, but always prayed and pondered on the question first. Once, when Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, was visiting the monks, they begged Abba Pambo to give the Patriarch a word. He answered: ‘If my silence is no help to him, neither will my words be.’ He reposed in peace, some say in 374, others in 386.