30. јул 2027.
Friday of the 6th week after Pentecost

Fast

Feasts

Royal Passionbearers

Commemorations

Great-martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (270)

Scripture Readings

1 Corinthians 4.5-8 (Epistle)

5Zato ne sudite ništa prije vremena, dokle Gospod ne doðe, koji æe iznijeti na vidjelo što je sakriveno u tami i objaviæe savjete srdaène, i tada æe pohvala biti svakome od Boga. 6A ovo, braæo moja, prigovorih sebi i Apolu vas radi, da se od nas nauèite da ne mislite za sebe više nego što je napisano, i da se koga radi ne nadimate jedan na drugoga. 7Jer ko tebe povišuje? Šta li imaš što nijesi primio? A ako si primio, što se hvališ kao da nijesi primio? 8Eto ste siti, eto se obogatiste, bez nas carujete. O da biste carovali, da bismo i mi s vama carovali!

Matthew 13.44-54 (Gospel)

44Još je carstvo nebesko kao blago sakriveno u polju, koje našavši èovjek sakri i od radosti zato otide i sve što ima prodade i kupi polje ono. 45Još je carstvo nebesko kao èovjek trgovac koji traži dobra bisera, 46Pa kad naðe jedno mnogocjeno zrno bisera, otide i prodade sve što imaše i kupi ga. 47Još je carstvo nebesko kao mreža koja se baci u more i zagrabi od svake ruke ribe; 48Koja kad se napuni, izvukoše je na kraj, i sjedavši, izbraše dobre u sudove, a zle baciše napolje. 49Tako æe biti na pošljetku vijeka: iziæi æe anðeli i odluèiæe zle od pravednijeh. 50I baciæe ih u peæ ognjenu: ondje æe biti plaè i škrgut zuba. 51Reèe im Isus: razumjeste li ovo? Rekoše mu: da, Gospode. 52A on im reèe: zato je svaki književnik koji se nauèio carstvu nebeskome kao domaæin koji iznosi iz klijeti svoje novo i staro. 53I kad svrši Isus prièe ove, otide odande. 54I došavši na postojbinu svoju, uèaše ih po zbornicama njihovijem tako da mu se divljahu, i govorahu: otkud ovome premudrost ova i moæi?

Commemorations

Great-martyr Marina (Margaret) of Antioch in Pisidia (270)

She was born in Antioch of Pisidia to pagan parents; her father was a pagan priest. When she was about twelve years old her mother died, and she was given into the care of a woman who told her of the Gospel of Christ. She was immediately filled with love for Christ and consecrated her life to His service. Her father, hearing of this, was furious and disowned her. When she was fifteen years old, she was brought before the governor Olymbrius, who first desired to marry her and, when she refused, ordered her to make sacrifice to the idols. She refused and proclaimed herself a Christian. For this she was harshly tortured, imprisoned, and finally beheaded. While she was in prison she was tormented by demons, but drove them away by her prayers. For this reason she is especially invoked for deliverance from demonic possession. One of her hands is preserved at Vatopedi Monastery on the Holy Mountain, and some of her relics are preserved at an Albanian Monastery dedicated to her.