Orthodox Calendar

12. септембар 2026.
Saturday of the 15th week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

  • Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs
  • Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 4.17-5.5 (Epistle)

17Zato poslah k vama Timotija, koji mi je sin ljubazni i vjerni u Gospodu; on æe vam opomenuti putove moje koji su u Hristu Isusu, kao što svuda i u svakoj crkvi uèim. 18Neki se naduše kao da ja neæu doæi k vama. 19Ali æu vam doæi skoro, ako Bog da, i neæu gledati na rijeèi onijeh što su se naduli, nego na silu. 20Jer carstvo Božije nije u rijeèi nego u sili. 21Šta hoæete? da doðem k vama s prutom ili s ljubavi i duhom krotosti?

1Vrlo se glasi da je kurvarstvo meðu vama, i takovo kurvarstvo kakovo se ni meðu neznabošcima ne èuje, da nekakav ima ženu oèinu. 2I vi se još nadimate, mjesto da plaèete, da se izvadi izmeðu vas onaj koji je uèinio to djelo. 3Jer ja, koji ako nijesam kod vas tijelom ali duhom tu živim, veæ otsudih kao da sam tamo, da se onaj koji je to tako uèinio, 4U ime Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista kad se saberete vi i moj duh, sa silom Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista, 5Da se on preda sotoni na muèenje tijela, da bi se duh spasao u dan Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista.

Matthew 24.1-13 (Gospel)

1I izišavši Isus iðaše od crkve, i pristupiše k njemu uèenici njegovi da mu pokažu graðevinu crkvenu. 2A Isus reèe im: ne vidite li sve ovo? Zaista vam kažem: neæe ostati ovdje ni kamen na kamenu koji se neæe razmetnuti. 3A kad sjeðaše na gori Maslinskoj pristupiše k njemu uèenici nasamo govoreæi: kaži nam kad æe to biti? i kakav je znak tvojega dolaska i pošljetka vijeka? 4I odgovarajuæi Isus reèe im: èuvajte se da vas ko ne prevari. 5Jer æe mnogi doæi u ime moje govoreæi: ja sam Hristos. I mnoge æe prevariti. 6Èuæete ratove i glasove o ratovima. Gledajte da se ne uplašite; jer treba da to sve bude. Ali nije još tada pošljedak. 7Jer æe ustati narod na narod i carstvo na carstvo; i biæe gladi i pomori, i zemlja æe se tresti po svijetu. 8A to je sve poèetak stradanja. 9Tada æe vas predati na muke, i pobiæe vas, i svi æe narodi omrznuti na vas imena mojega radi. 10I tada æe se mnogi sablazniti, i drug druga izdaæe, i omrznuæe drug na druga. 11I iziæi æe mnogi lažni proroci i prevariæe mnoge. 12I što æe se bezakonje umnožiti, ohladnjeæe ljubav mnogijeh. 13Ali koji pretrpi do kraja blago njemu.

Commemorations

Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs

On this day are commemorated seventeen holy Serbian hierarchs, beginning with St Sava (Sabbas), first Archbishop of Serbia and Equal to the Apostles. They are:

  • St Sava, first Archbishop of Serbia, Equal to the Apostles
  • Arsenius, his successor
  • Sava II, son of King Stephen the First-Crowned
  • Nicodemus, who lived on the Holy Mountain, was abbot of Hilandar Monastery there and Archbishop of Serbia
  • Joannicius, patriarch from 1346-1349
  • Ephraim, chosen as patriarch against his will in 1376. He crowned Prince Lazar, then renounced the patriarchal throne and retired into solitude
  • Spiridon, his successor (+1388)
  • Macarius, a great restorer of old churches and monasteries; printed many Church books (+1574)
  • Gabriel, a nobleman by birth. The Prologue says that he ‘took part in the Moscow Council under Patriarch Nikhon, because of which he was tortured by the Turks for treason and hanged in 1656.’
  • In addition, Eustace, Jacob, Danilo, Sava III, Gregory, John, Maxim and Nikhon.
The vital connection between the Serbian church and the Holy Mountain is obvious here; many of these hierarchs lived and struggled on Mt Athos.

Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople

St Alexander took part in the First Ecumenical Council as delegate of Patriarch Metrophanes, who was too frail to attend; and succeeded Metrophanes on the Patriarchal throne. By his prayer to God that the Church might be spared the schemings of Arius, Arius was struck dead.

St John is, by one account, St John the Faster (Sept. 2), who reposed in 595; by another, St John Scholasticus (Feb. 21), who reposed in 577.

St Paul was Patriarch for five years, then renounced the Patriarchal throne to take the Great Schema.