2. јун 2027.
Wednesday of the 5th Sunday of Pascha

Fast — Wine and Oil are Allowed

Feasts

Leavetaking of Mid-Pentecost

Commemorations

Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)
Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

Scripture Readings

Acts 13.13-24 (Epistle)

13A kad se Pavle sa svojijem društvom odveze iz Pafa, doðoše u Pergu Pamfilijsku; a Jovan se odvoji od njih, i vrati se u Jerusalim. 14A oni otišavši iz Perge doðoše u Antiohiju Pisidijsku, i ušavši u zbornicu u dan subotni sjedoše. 15A po èitanju zakona i proroka poslaše starješine zbornièke k njima govoreæi: ljudi braæo! ako je u vama rijeè utjehe za narod, govorite. 16A Pavle ustavši i mahnuvši rukom reèe: ljudi Izrailjci i koji se Boga bojite! èujte. 17Bog naroda ovoga izabra oce naše, i podiže narod kad bijahu došljaci u zemlji Misirskoj, i rukom visokom izvede ih iz nje. 18I do èetrdeset godina prehrani ih u pustinji. 19I zatrvši sedam naroda u zemlji Hanaanskoj na kocke razdijeli im zemlju njihovu. 20I potom na èetiri stotine i pedeset godina dade im sudije do Samuila proroka. 21I od tada iskaše cara, i dade im Bog Saula, sina Kisova, èovjeka od koljena Venijaminova, za èetrdeset godina. 22I uklonivši njega podiže im Davida za cara, kome i reèe svjedoèeæi: naðoh Davida sina Jesejeva, èovjeka po srcu mojemu, koji æe ispuniti sve volje moje. 23Od njegova sjemena podiže Bog po obeæanju Izrailju spasa Isusa; 24Kad Jovan pred njegovijem dolaskom propovijeda krštenje pokajanja svemu narodu Izrailjevu.

John 6.5-14 (Gospel)

5Podignuvši dakle Isus oèi, i vidjevši da mnoštvo naroda ide k njemu, reèe Filipu: gdje æemo kupiti hljeba da ovi jedu? 6A ovo govoraše kušajuæi ga, jer sam znadijaše šta æe èiniti. 7Odgovori mu Filip: dvjesta groša hljeba nije dosta da svakome od njih po malo dopadne. 8Reèe mu jedan od uèenika njegovijeh, Andrija, brat Simona Petra: 9Ovdje ima jedno momèe koje ima pet hljebova jeèmenijeh i dvije ribe; ali šta je to na toliki svijet! 10A Isus reèe: posadite ljude. A bješe trave mnogo na onome mjestu. Posadi se dakle ljudi na broj oko pet hiljada. 11A Isus uzevši one hljebove, i davši hvalu, dade uèenicima, a uèenici onima koji bijahu posaðeni; tako i od riba koliko htješe. 12I kad se nasitiše, reèe uèenicima svojijem: skupite komade što pretekoše da ništa ne propadne. 13I skupiše, i napuniše dvanaest kotarica komada od pet hljebova jeèmenijeh što preteèe iza onijeh što su jeli. 14A ljudi vidjevši èudo koje uèini Isus govorahu: ovo je zaista onaj prorok koji treba da doðe na svijet.

Commemorations

Martyr Thalelaeus at Aegae in Cilicia and those with him (327)

The holy Thalelaeus is counted as one of the Unmercenary Physicians. He was a physician, born in Lebanon to a Berucius (a bishop) and Romylia. During the persecutions by the Emperor Numerian, he fled to Cilicia, but was captured and brought before Theodore, the governor. When Thalelaeus boldly confessed Christ, the cruel governor ordered two soldiers, Alexander and Asterius, to bore holes through his leg-bones, pass a rope through them, and hang him from a tree. But the executioners, by the power of God, were momentarily deprived of their wits and bored through a wooden plank instead, which they hung in the tree. The governor angrily ordered that the soldiers be flogged; during their flogging they cried out: ‘The Lord is alive to us; from now on, we are become Christians. We believe in Christ, and suffer for Him.’ Hearing these words, the governor ordered that both be beheaded. He then seized their awl and attempted to bore through Thalelaeus’ legs himself; but his hand suddenly became paralyzed. The compassionate physician prayed to Christ and healed his persecutor’ hand. His heart still hardened, the governor next ordered that the Saint be thrown into water and drowned; but he survived. Next he was thrown to wild beasts, but they licked his feet and rubbed tamely against him. Finally the holy Martyr was beheaded.

Our Father among the Saints Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow (1378)

He was born in Moscow in 1292. In 1354 he was ordained Metropolitan of Moscow by Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople. He founded several monasteries, including the first women’s monastery in Moscow. He translated the Holy Gospel from Greek into Slavonic. At that time Russia was under the rule of the Tartars, and St Alexis twice visited the Tartar Khan to plead with him to ease the oppression of the Russian people. On one of these visits he healed Taidula, the Khan’s wife. He founded the Chudov Monastery in Moscow on land given him by the Khan and his wife in thanksgiving for this miraculous healing; the Saint’s relics are enshrined at this same monastery. This is the feast of the uncovering of his holy relics in 1431.