3. јул 2027.
Saturday of the 2nd week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)
St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)
Blessed Studios (5th c.)

Scripture Readings

Romans 3.19-26 (Epistle)

19A znamo da ono što zakon govori, govori onima koji su u zakonu, da se svaka usta zatisnu, i sav svijet da bude kriv Bogu; 20Jer se djelima zakona nijedno tijelo neæe opravdati pred njim; jer kroz zakon dolazi poznanje grijeha. 21A sad se bez zakona javi pravda Božija, posvjedoèena od zakona i od proroka; 22A pravda Božija vjerom Isusa Hrista u sve i na sve koji vjeruju; jer nema razlike. 23Jer svi sagriješiše i izgubili su slavu Božiju, 24I opravdaæe se zabadava blagodaæu njegovom, otkupom Isusa Hrista. 25Kojega postavi Bog oèišæenje vjerom u krvi njegovoj da pokaže svoju pravdu oproštenjem preðašnjijeh grijeha; 26U podnošenju Božijemu, da pokaže pravdu svoju u sadašnje vrijeme da je on pravedan i da pravda onoga koji je od vjere Isusove.

Matthew 7.1-8 (Gospel)

1Ne sudite da vam se ne sudi; 2Jer kakovijem sudom sudite, onakovijem æe vam suditi; i kakovom mjerom mjerite, onakom æe vam se mjeriti. 3A zašto vidiš trun u oku brata svojega, a brvna u oku svojemu ne osjeæaš? 4Ili, kako možeš reæi bratu svojemu: stani da ti izvadim trun iz oka tvojega; a eto brvno u oku tvojemu? 5Licemjere! izvadi najprije brvno iz oka svojega, pa æeš onda vidjeti izvaditi trun iz oka brata svojega. 6Ne dajte svetinje psima; niti meæite bisera svojega pred svinje, da ga ne pogaze nogama svojima, i vrativši se ne rastrgnu vas. 7Ištite, i daæe vam se; tražite, i naæi æete; kucajte, i otvoriæe vam se. 8Jer svaki koji ište, prima; i koji traži, nalazi; i koji kuca, otvoriæe mu se.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)

Noted in his own time for his wisdom and virtue, he was called Eubolos, meaning “of good counsel.” He was among the first to oppose the heretical writings of Origen. He was bishop in Patara (according to some sources) or Olympia (according to others), then of Tyre in Phoenecia. Under the Emperor Maximinus, he was attacked by the pagans and received the crown of martyrdom in Chalkis in Greece.

St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)

For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he remained until his death in 1363. He wrote the definitive lives of St Gregory the Sinaite and St Theodosius of Trnovo. He was known to St Maximos Kapsokalyvia (the Hut-burner), who foretold his death: On his final journey to Serbia, on which he died, the Patriarch stopped on Mt Athos, where St Maximos saw him and said, “This elder will not see his flock again, because I hear behind him the hymn over the grave, ‘Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way…’”

Blessed Studios (5th c.)

He was a prominent nobleman and consul in Constantinople. In the City he founded both the Church of St John the Forerunner in 463, and the monastery thereafter called the Studion in honor of him. The Studion monastery nurtured a long line of ascetics, teachers, and martyrs; perhaps the best known is St Theodore the Studite (November 11), the great defender of the holy icons. The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.