1 Corinthians 11.31-12.6 (Epistle)

31Jer kad bismo sebe rasuðivali, ne bismo osuðeni bili. 32Ali kad smo suðeni, nakazuje nas Gospod, da se ne osudimo sa svijetom. 33Zato, braæo moja, kad se sastajete da jedete, išèekujte jedan drugoga. 34Ako li je ko gladan, neka jede kod kuæe, da se na grijeh ne sastajete. A za ostalo urediæu kad doðem.

1A za duhovne darove neæu vam, braæo, zatajiti. 2Znate da kad bijaste neznabošci idoste k idolima bezglasnima, kako vas voðahu. 3Zato vam dajem na znanje da niko ko duhom Božijim govori neæe reæi: anatemate Isusa; i niko ne može Isusa Gospodom nazvati osim Duhom svetijem. 4Darovi su razlièni, ali je Duh jedan. 5I razliène su službe, ali je jedan Gospod. 6I razliène su sile, ali je jedan Bog koji èini sve u svemu.

Matthew 18.1-11 (Gospel)

1U taj èas pristupiše uèenici k Isusu govoreæi: ko je dakle najveæi u carstvu nebeskome? 2I dozva Isus dijete, i postavi ga meðu njih, 3I reèe im: zaista vam kažem, ako se ne povratite i ne budete kao djeca, neæete uæi u carstvo nebesko. 4Koji se dakle ponizi kao dijete ovo, onaj je najveæi u carstvu nebeskome. 5I koji primi takovo dijete u ime moje, mene prima. 6A koji sablazni jednoga od ovijeh malijeh koji vjeruju mene, bolje bi mu bilo da se objesi kamen vodenièni o vratu njegovu, i da potone u dubinu morsku. 7Teško svijetu od sablazni! jer je potrebno da doðu sablazni; ali teško onom èovjeku kroz koga dolazi sablazan. 8Ako li te ruka tvoja ili noga tvoja sablažnjava, otsijeci je i baci od sebe: bolje ti je uæi u život hromu ili kljastu, negoli s dvije ruke i dvije noge da te bace u oganj vjeèni. 9I ako te oko tvoje sablažnjava, izvadi ga i baci od sebe: bolje ti je s jednijem okom u život uæi, nego s dva oka da te bace u pakao ognjeni. 10Gledajte da ne prezrete jednoga od malijeh ovijeh; jer vam kažem da anðeli njihovi na nebesima jednako gledaju lice oca mojega nebeskoga. 11Jer sin èovjeèij doðe da iznaðe i spase izgubljeno.

Sts Isaac, Dalmatus and Faustus, ascetics of the Dalmatian Monastery, Constantinople (5th c.)

St Isaac is also commemorated May 30; see his life there. St Dalmatus was a soldier in the Imperial army, but along with his son Faustus left all to become a monk at the monastery founded by St Isaac. He was present at the Third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus in 431; there he labored zealously for the Orthodox faith against Patriarch Nestorius. He was made Archimandrite of all the monasteries in Constantinople, and reposed in peace, having lived for more than eighty years.

Holy Myrrh-bearer Salome

She was the mother of the Apostles James and John, the wife of Zebedee, and the daughter of Joseph the Betrothed, who was a widower when he became betrothed to the Mother of God. She was a disciple of the Lord and one of the Myrrh-bearing women who first brought tidings of the Resurrection to the world.

Our Holy Father Antony the Roman (1148)

He was born in Rome in 1086 to wealthy and pious parents. When the Roman Church broke away from the Orthodox around that time, those who continued to uphold Orthodoxy, Antony among them, were persecuted. Antony gave away his worldly possessions and fled to a small rocky island in the sea, where he spent fourteen months in asceticism. During this time, the island miraculously floated like a ship to Novgorod. There, Archbishop Nikita received the young monk and helped him to build a church to the holy Theotokos, which in time became a monastery. St Anthony served there as abbot for many years, reposing in peace in 1148.

Holy Martyr Razhden the Persian, Protomartyr of Georgia (457)

Razhden was of a noble Persian family, and a Zoroastrian. When the holy King Vakhtang Gorgasali of Georgia married Balendukht, the daughter of the Persian king Hormizd III, she took Razhden with her to Georgia. In Kartli he became a Christian, and King Vakhtang gave him an estate and made him a military adviser and commander. Angered that Vakhtang was a Christian, the Persian king Peroz (reigned 457–484) invaded Georgia with an enormous army, and Razhden fought bravely against him. Peroz ordered him taken captive. He was brought bound before the King, who greeted him with feigned tenderness and asked why he had turned from the faith of his fathers; and Razhden declared without fear that Christianity is the only true faith, and Christ the only true Saviour of mankind. Peroz had him beaten without mercy: his teeth were knocked out, he was dragged across jagged rocks, and he was cast into prison in heavy chains.

When the Georgian nobles heard of his sufferings, they came to Peroz and asked him to set Razhden free. Peroz released him on his vow to return. Razhden went to Mtskheta, took leave of his family and of King Vakhtang and, though those who loved him begged him not to, went back to Peroz. When he still would not return to the religion of his fathers, Peroz sent him to the Persian camp at Tsromi, in central Georgia, and secretly ordered its commander to make him renounce Christ or put him to death. To these appeals Razhden replied: “Your flattery and bribes are insulting to me. With joy I am prepared to endure every suffering for the sake of Christ!” The Persians condemned him with the words “If he hopes in the Crucified One, then he also is fit to suffer crucifixion!” They crucified him and shot him with arrows. His last words were “Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit!” He died on the cross in 457. That night Christians took his body down from the cross and buried it in secret. Some years later King Vakhtang translated his relics from Tsromi to Nikozi and laid them in the cathedral he had built there, and he built churches in his honour at Ujarma and Samgori. He is the first martyr of the Church of Georgia. (Archpriest Zakaria Machitadze, The Lives of the Georgian Saints)