21. август 2026.
Friday of the 12nd week after Pentecost

Dormition Fast

Commemorations

St Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820)
St Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete (350)
St Gregory of Sinai (Mt Athos) (1346)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 7.10-16 (Epistle)

10Jer žalost koja je po Bogu donosi za spasenije pokajanje, za koje se nigda ne kaje; a žalost ovoga svijeta smrt donosi. 11Jer, gle, ovo samo što se po Bogu ožalostiste, koliko uèini staranje meðu vama? kakovo pravdanje, kaku nepovoljnost, kakav strah, kaku želju, kaku revnost, kaku osvetu? U svemu pokazaste se da ste èisti u djelu. 12Jer ako vam i pisah, ne onoga radi koji je skrivio, niti onoga radi kome je krivo uèinjeno, nego da se pokaže meðu vama staranje naše za vas pred Bogom. 13Zato se utješismo utjehom vašom; a još se veæma obradovasmo radosti Titovoj, jer vi svi umiriste duh njegov. 14Jer što sam mu se za vas pohvalio, nijesam se posramio; nego kako je sve istina što govorismo vama, tako i pohvala naša k Titu istinita bi. 15I srce je njegovo puno ljubavi k vama kad se opominje poslušanja sviju vas, kako ste ga sa strahom i drktanjem primili. 16Radujem se dakle što se u svemu smijem osloniti na vas.

Mark 2.18-22 (Gospel)

18I bijahu uèenici Jovanovi i farisejski koji pošæahu; i doðoše i rekoše mu: zašto uèenici Jovanovi i farisejski poste a tvoji uèenici ne poste? 19I reèe im Isus: eda li mogu svatovi postiti dok je ženik s njima? Dokle god imaju sa sobom ženika ne mogu postiti. 20Nego æe doæi dni kad æe se oteti od njih ženik, i tada æe postiti u one dne. 21I niko ne prišiva nove zakrpe na staru haljinu; inaèe æe odadrijeti nova zakrpa od staroga, i gora æe rupa biti. 22I niko ne ljeva nova vina u mjehove stare; inaèe novo vino prodre mjehove, i vino se prolije, i mjehovi propadnu; nego novo vino u nove mjehove ljevati treba.

Commemorations

St Emilian the Confessor, bishop of Cyzicus (820)

He was one of the bishops summoned by the Patriarch Nikephoros to defend the veneration of the holy icons against the Emperor Leo the Armenian. For this reason he was sent into exile around 815, and after many sufferings for his faithful confession, reposed in exile in 820.

St Myron the Wonderworker, Bishop of Crete (350)

He was a widowed farmer who, though poor, shared the produce of his farm freely with the needy. Once he found some thieves stealing his grain. Without saying who he was, he helped the thieves fill their sacks and make their escape. His virtue became known, and he was ordained to the priesthood, then consecrated bishop. In his own lifetime he was known as a great wonderworker. He reposed in peace.

St Gregory of Sinai (Mt Athos) (1346)

One of the great ascetics, hesychasts and spiritual teachers of the Church, he did much to restore the knowledge and practice of Orthodox hesychasm. He became a monk at Mt Sinai. He traveled to Mt Athos to learn more of Orthodox spiritual prayer and contemplation, but found that these were almost lost even on the Holy Mountain. The only true, holy hesychast he found there was St Maximos of Kapsokalyvia (Maximos the hut-burner, January 13). Maximos lived a life of reclusion in crude shelters; from time to time he would burn his hut and move to a new one, so as not to become attached even to that poor earthly dwelling. For this, he was scorned as a madman by the other monks. St Gregory upbraided the monks and told them that Maximos was the only true hesychast among them, thus beginning a reform of spiritual life on the Holy Mountain. He spent time teaching mental prayer in all the monasteries of Mt Athos, then traveled around Macedonia, establishing new monasteries. Some of his writings on prayer and asceticism can be found in the Philokalia. He reposed in peace in 1346.