Apostles Fast — Wine and Oil are Allowed
18Niko neka se ne vara: ako ko meðu vama misli da je mudar na ovome svijetu, neka bude lud da bude mudar. 19Jer je premudrost ovoga svijeta ludost pred Bogom, jer je pisano: hvata premudre u njihovu lukavstvu. 20I opet: Gospod zna pomisli mudrijeh da su ništa. 21Zato niko da se ne hvali èovjekom, jer je sve vaše. 22Bio Pavle, ili Apolo, ili Kifa, ili svijet, ili život ili smrt, ili sadašnje, ili buduæe: sve je vaše; 23A vi ste Hristovi a Hristos Božij.
36Tada ostavi Isus ljude, i doðe u kuæu. I pristupiše k njemu uèenici njegovi govoreæi: kaži nam prièu o kukolju na njivi. 37A on odgovarajuæi reèe im: koji sije dobro sjeme ono je sin èovjeèij; 38A njiva je svijet; a dobro sjeme sinovi su carstva, a kukolj sinovi su zla; 39A neprijatelj koji ga je posijao jest ðavo; a žetva je pošljedak ovoga vijeka; a žeteoci su anðeli. 40Kako što se dakle kukolj sabira, i ognjem sažiže, tako æe biti na pošljetku ovoga vijeka. 41Poslaæe sin èovjeèij anðele svoje, i sabraæe iz carstva njegova sve sablazni i koji èine bezakonje. 42I baciæe ih u peæ ognjenu: ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 43Tada æe se pravednici zasjati kao sunce u carstvu oca svojega. Ko ima uši da èuje neka èuje.
For years he lived the ascetic life in a crude tree- house he had fashioned in the branches of an almond tree. Then he moved to Thessaly, where he continued his life of fasting, prayer and vigil, cleansing his soul and being made worthy to perform many miracles. Once, when the Emperor Justinian visited him, he took a live coal in his bare hand and censed the Emperor. The Emperor, seeing this, bowed to the ground before David. He reposed in peace.
This icon was once kept in the Church of Blachernae in Constantinople. In 1383, it suddenly appeared in the sky over Lake Ladoga, then travelled through the air to the city of Tikhvin, where it alit by the River Tikhvina. A monastery was built there to house it. In the twentieth century it was brought to America. Innumerable miracles have been worked through this wonderworking icon, especially healings of children.
On this day is also commemorated the Hodigritia Icon of the Mother of God. According to many accounts, this icon and the Tikhvin Icon are one and the same, so we list them together. Hodigritia is translated “Directress” or more literally “She who shows the way.” It was painted by Luke the Evangelist himself, who knew the Mother of God in the flesh. Over the years the icon was taken from Antioch to Jerusalem, then to Constantinople where it was enshrined in the Church of Blachernae. When Constantinople was attacked at the same time by the Persians and the Scythians, Patriarch Sergius carried the holy icon around the ramparts, and the city was miraculously delivered from its pagan enemies. During the iconoclast period, the icon was hidden in a wall in the monastery of the Pantocrator.