20. новембар 2027.
Saturday of the 22nd week after Pentecost

No Fast

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)
Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 5.1-10 (Epistle)

1Jer znamo da kad se zemaljska naša kuæa tijela raskopa, imamo zgradu od Boga, kuæu nerukotvorenu, vjeènu na nebesima. 2Jer za tijem uzdišemo, želeæi obuæi se u svoj nebeski stan. 3I da se obuèeni, ne goli naðemo! 4Jer buduæi u ovome tijelu, uzdišemo otežali; jer neæemo da se svuèemo, nego da se preobuèemo, da život proždere smrtno. 5A onaj koji nas za ovo isto stvori, Bog je, koji nam i dade zalog Duha. 6Dobre smo dakle volje jednako, jer znamo da putujemo u tijelu, daleko od Gospoda. 7Jer po vjeri živimo a ne po gledanju. 8Ali se ne bojimo, i mnogo volimo otiæi od tijela, i iæi ka Gospodu. 9Zato se i staramo, ili ulazili ili odlazili, da budemo njemu ugodni. 10Jer nam se svima valja javiti na sudu Hristovu, da primimo svaki što je koji u tijelu èinio, ili dobro ili zlo;

Luke 9.1-6 (Gospel)

1Sazvavši pak dvanaestoricu dade im silu i vlast nad svijem ðavolima, i da iscjeljuju od bolesti. 2I posla ih da propovijedaju carstvo Božije, i da iscjeljuju bolesnike. 3I reèe im: ništa ne uzimajte na put, ni štapa ni torbe ni hljeba ni novaca, niti po dvije haljine da imate. 4U koju kuæu uðete ondje budite i odande polazite. 5I gdje vas ne prime izlazeæi iz grada onoga otresite i prah s nogu svojijeh, za svjedoèanstvo na njih. 6A kad iziðoše, iðahu po selima propovijedajuæi jevanðelje i iscjeljujuæi svuda.

Commemorations

St Hieron and his thirty-three Companions, martyred at Melitene (290)

Hieron was a farmer from Tyana in Cappadocia, known for his great bodily strength as well as purity of soul. Hearing of his prowess, imperial soldiers came to draft him into the army. Knowing that he would be required to make sacrifice to the idols, Hieron drove them off with only a wooden stave, then hid in the wilderness. Later, however, he went to the Governor voluntarily and openly confessed his faith in Christ. For this his right hand was cut off and he was imprisoned with thirty-two other believers. As they awaited their end, Hieron strengthened the others in the Faith. All were beheaded together outside Melitene in Armenia.

Saint Willibrord, first Bishop of Utrecht and Apostle of Holland (739)

He was born in Northubria in England around 638. At the age of seven he was sent to the monastery at Ripon for education under St Wilfrid (April 24), the abbot. At the age of twenty he traveled to Ireland to live among the holy monks of that land; he spent twelve years there as the spiritual child of St Egbert (also April 24). In 690 St Egbert sent Willibrord as head of a company of twelve monks to take the Gospel to the pagan lands around Frisia. The holy missionary first went to Rome to receive the blessing of Pope Sergius, then with his fellow-monks preached the Gospel throughout Holland and Zealand. In 695 Pope Sergius consecrated Willibrord Archbishop of Utrecht, instructing him to organize the Church throughout that area. As Archbishop, Willibrord continued to labor tirelessly for the spread of the Gospel in those pagan lands; his missionary travels took him as far as Denmark. He reposed in peace in 739 at Echternach Monastery (located in present-day in Luxembourg), having served for forty-four years as a bishop and for most of his life as a monastic. His tomb soon became a place of pilgrimage.