John 21.15-25 (11th Matins Gospel)

15A kad objedovaše, reèe Isus Simonu Petru: Simone Jonin! ljubiš li me veæma nego ovi? Reèe mu: da, Gospode! ti znaš da te ljubim. Reèe mu Isus: pasi jaganjce moje. 16Reèe mu opet drugom: Simone Jonin! ljubiš li me? Reèe mu: da, Gospode! ti znaš da te ljubim. Reèe mu Isus: pasi ovce moje. 17Reèe mu treæom: Simone Jonin! ljubiš li me? A Petar posta žalostan što mu reèe treæom: ljubiš li me? i reèe mu: Gospode! ti sve znaš, ti znaš da te ljubim. Reèe mu Isus: pasi ovce moje. 18Zaista, zaista ti kažem: kad si bio mlad, opasivao si se sam i hodio si kuda si htio; a kad ostariš, širiæeš ruke svoje i drugi æe te opasati i odvesti kuda neæeš. 19A ovo reèe pokazujuæi kakom æe smrti proslaviti Boga. I rekavši ovo reèe mu: hajde za mnom. 20A Petar obazrevši se vidje gdje za njim ide onaj uèenik koga Isus ljubljaše, koji i na veèeri leže na prsi njegove i reèe: Gospode! ko je taj koji æe te izdati? 21Vidjevši Petar ovoga reèe Isusu: Gospode! a šta æe ovaj? 22Isus mu reèe: ako hoæu da on ostane dok ja ne doðem, šta je tebi do toga? Ti hajde za mnom. 23Onda iziðe ova rijeè meðu braæom da onaj uèenik neæe umrijeti; ali Isus ne reèe njemu da neæe umrijeti, nego: ako hoæu da ostane dok ja ne doðem, što je tebi do toga? 24Ovo je onaj uèenik koji svjedoèi za ovo, koji i napisa ovo: i znamo da je svjedoèanstvo njegovo istinito. 25A ima i drugo mnogo što uèini Isus, koje kad bi se redom popisalo, ni u sami svijet, mislim, ne bi mogle stati napisane knjige. Amin.

1 Corinthians 9.2-12 (Epistle)

2Ako drugima i nijesam apostol, ali vama jesam, jer ste vi peèat mojega apostolstva u Gospodu. 3Moj odgovor onima koji me uspitaju ovo je: 4Eda li nemamo vlasti jesti i piti? 5Eda li nemamo vlasti sestru ženu voditi, kao i ostali apostoli, i braæa Gospodnja, i Kifa? 6Ili jedan ja i Varnava nemamo vlasti ovo èiniti? 7Ko vojuje kad o svome trošku? Ili ko sadi vinograd i od rodova njegovijeh da ne jede? Ili ko pase stado i od mlijeka stada da ne jede? 8Eda li ovo govorim po èovjeku? Ne govori li ovo i zakon? 9Jer je u Mojsijevu zakonu napisano: da ne zavežeš usta volu koji vrše. Eda li se Bog brine za volove? 10Ili govori jamaèno za nas? Jer se za nas napisa: koji ore treba u nadanju da ore; i koji vrše u nadanju da æe dobiti od onoga što vrše. 11Kada mi vama duhovna sijasmo, je li to što veliko ako mi vama tjelesna požnjemo? 12Kad se drugi miješaju u vašu vlast, akamoli da ne bi mi? Ali ne uèinismo po vlasti ovoj nego sve trpimo da ne uèinimo kake smetnje jevanðelju Hristovu.

Matthew 18.23-35 (Gospel)

23Zato je carstvo nebesko kao èovjek car koji namisli da se proraèuni sa svojijem slugama. 24I kad se poèe raèuniti, dovedoše mu jednoga dužnika od deset hiljada talanata. 25I buduæi da nemaše èim platiti, zapovjedi gospodar njegov da ga prodadu, i ženu njegovu i djecu, i sve što ima; i da mu se plati. 26No sluga taj pade i klanjaše mu se govoreæi: gospodaru! prièekaj me, i sve æu ti platiti. 27A gospodaru se sažali za tijem slugom, pusti ga i dug oprosti mu. 28A kad iziðe sluga taj, naðe jednoga od svojijeh drugara koji mu je dužan sto groša, i uhvativši ga davljaše govoreæi: daj mi što si dužan. 29Pade drugar njegov pred noge njegove i moljaše ga govoreæi: prièekaj me, i sve æu ti platiti. 30A on ne htje, nego ga odvede i baci u tamnicu dok ne plati duga. 31Vidjevši pak drugari njegovi taj dogaðaj žao im bi vrlo, i otišavši kazaše gospodaru svojemu sav dogaðaj. 32Tada ga dozva gospodar njegov, i reèe mu: zli slugo! sav dug onaj oprostih tebi, jer si me molio. 33Nije li trebalo da se i ti smiluješ na svog drugara, kao i ja na te što se smilovah? 34I razgnjevi se gospodar njegov, i predade ga muèiteljima dok ne plati sav dug svoj. 35Tako æe i otac moj nebeski uèiniti vama, ako ne oprostite svaki bratu svojemu od srca svojijeh.

Sts Isaac, Dalmatus and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery, Constantinople (5th c.)

St Isaac is also commemorated May 30; see his life there. St Dalmatus was a soldier in the Imperial army, but along with his son Faustus left all to become a monk at the monastery founded by St Isaac. He was present at the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431; there he labored zealously for the Orthodox faith against Patriarch Nestorius. He was made Archimandrite of all the monasteries in Constantinople, and reposed in peace, having lived for more than eighty years.

Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome

She was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world.

Our Holy Father Antony the Roman (1148)

He was born in Rome in 1086 to wealthy and pious parents. When the Roman Church broke away from the Orthodox around that time, those who continued to uphold Orthodoxy, Antony among them, were persecuted. Antony gave away his worldly possessions and fled to a small rocky island in the sea, where he spent fourteen months in asceticism. During this time, the island miraculously floated like a ship to Novgorod. There, Archbishop Nikita received the young monk and helped him to build a church to the holy Theotokos, which in time became a monastery. St Anthony served there as abbot for many years, reposing in peace in 1148.

Holy Martyr Razhden the Persian, Protomartyr of Georgia (457)

Razhden was of a noble Persian family, and a Zoroastrian. When the holy King Vakhtang Gorgasali of Georgia married Balendukht, the daughter of the Persian king Hormizd III, she took Razhden with her to Georgia. In Kartli he became a Christian, and King Vakhtang gave him an estate and made him a military adviser and commander. Angered that Vakhtang was a Christian, the Persian king Peroz (reigned 457–484) invaded Georgia with an enormous army, and Razhden fought bravely against him. Peroz ordered him taken captive. He was brought bound before the King, who greeted him with feigned tenderness and asked why he had turned from the faith of his fathers; and Razhden declared without fear that Christianity is the only true faith, and Christ the only true Saviour of mankind. Peroz had him beaten without mercy: his teeth were knocked out, he was dragged across jagged rocks, and he was cast into prison in heavy chains.

When the Georgian nobles heard of his sufferings, they came to Peroz and asked him to set Razhden free. Peroz released him on his vow to return. Razhden went to Mtskheta, took leave of his family and of King Vakhtang and, though those who loved him begged him not to, went back to Peroz. When he still would not return to the religion of his fathers, Peroz sent him to the Persian camp at Tsromi, in central Georgia, and secretly ordered its commander to make him renounce Christ or put him to death. To these appeals Razhden replied: “Your flattery and bribes are insulting to me. With joy I am prepared to endure every suffering for the sake of Christ!” The Persians condemned him with the words “If he hopes in the Crucified One, then he also is fit to suffer crucifixion!” They crucified him and shot him with arrows. His last words were “Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit!” He died on the cross in 457. That night Christians took his body down from the cross and buried it in secret. Some years later King Vakhtang translated his relics from Tsromi to Nikozi and laid them in the cathedral he had built there, and he built churches in his honour at Ujarma and Samgori. He is the first martyr of the Church of Georgia. (Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze, The Lives of the Georgian Saints)