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.

Virgin-Martyr Febronia of Nisibis (310)

Though the daughter of a Roman senator and a great beauty, she fled the world and entered a monastery in Mesopotamia. (So great was her beauty that the abbess had her stand behind a screen while reading to her monastic sisters.) At that time the Emperor Diocletian sent a certain Selenus, along with his nephew Lysimachus, on a mission to find and destroy Christians in the East. Though Selenus was a fierce persecutor of the Christians, Lysimachus felt sympathy for them and secretly protected them whenever he could. Selenus and his party came to Nisibis, where Febronia’s virtue and holiness had already become well-known, though she was still only twenty years old. Selenus summoned her and made every effort to convince her to renounce her faith. When she stood firm, she was first viciously dismembered then beheaded. Lysimachus gathered her relics and took them to the monastery for burial. At the monastery he, together with many soldiers, were baptized. The holy Febronia’s relics worked many healings, and she herself appeared to the other nuns on the anniversary of her repose, standing in her usual place among her sisters. Her relics were translated to Constantinople in 363.

Our Holy Father Dionysios, founder of the Monastery of St John the Forerunner on Mt Athos (1380)

He was born in Koritza in Albania. His elder brother Theodosius went to the Holy Mountain and in time became abbot of the monastery of Philotheou. A few years later Dionysios followed his brother and became a monk under him at Philotheou. A heavenly light began to appear to Dionysios every night at the same place, some distance from his monastery. Believing that the light was a divine sign that he was to build a monastery, Dionysios left the Holy Mountain to seek the help of his brother (now Metropolitan of Trebizond) and the Emperor Alexios Comnenis. From the Emperor he received both money and a Royal Charter, which is still kept at the Monastery of St John the Forerunner, which Dionysios founded in 1380, and which is often referred to as the Dionysiou Monastery. Later, pirates plundered the monastery, and Dionysius went to Trebizond, where he reposed at the age of seventy-two.