Acts 10.21-33 (Epistle)

21A Petar sišavši k ljudima poslanijem k sebi od Kornilija reèe: evo ja sam koga tražite; što ste došli? 22A oni rekoše: Kornilije kapetan, èovjek pravedan i bogobojazan, poznat kod svega naroda Jevrejskoga, primio je zapovijest od anðela svetoga da dozove tebe u svoj dom i da èuje rijeèi od tebe. 23Onda ih dozva unutra i ugosti. A sjutradan ustavši Petar poðe s njima, i neki od braæe koja bješe u Jopi poðoše s njim. 24I sjutradan uðoše u Æesariju. A Kornilije èekaše ih sazvavši rodbinu svoju i ljubazne prijatelje. 25A kad Petar šæaše da uðe, srete ga Kornilije, i padnuvši na noge njegove pokloni se. 26I Petar ga podiže govoreæi: ustani, i ja sam èovjek. 27I s njim govoreæi uðe, i naðe mnoge koji se bijahu sabrali. 28I reèe im: vi znate kako je neprilièno èovjeku Jevrejinu družiti se ili dolaziti k tuðinu; ali Bog meni pokaza da nijednoga èovjeka ne zovem pogana ili neèista; 29Zato i bez sumnje doðoh pozvan. Pitam vas dakle zašto poslaste po mene? 30I Kornilije reèe: od èetvrtoga dana do ovoga èasa ja postih, i u deveti sahat moljah se Bogu u svojoj kuæi; i gle, èovjek stade preda mnom u haljini sjajnoj, 31I reèe: Kornilije! uslišena bi molitva tvoja i milostinje tvoje pomenuše se pred Bogom. 32Pošlji dakle u Jopu i dozovi Simona koji se zove Petar: on stoji u kuæi Simona kožara kod mora, koji kad doðe kazaæe ti. 33Onda ja odmah poslah k tebi; i ti si dobro uèinio što si došao. Sad dakle mi svi stojimo pred Bogom da èujemo sve što je tebi od Boga zapovjeðeno.

John 7.1-13 (Gospel)

1I potom hoðaše Isus po Galileji; jer po Judeji ne šæadijaše da hodi, jer gledahu Jevreji da ga ubiju. 2Bijaše pak blizu praznik Jevrejski graðenje sjenica. 3Tada mu rekoše braæa njegova: iziði odavde i idi u Judeju, da i uèenici tvoji vide djela tvoja koja èiniš; 4Jer niko ne èini što tajno a sam traži da je poznat. Ako to èiniš javi sebe svijetu. 5Jer ni braæa njegova ne vjerovahu ga. 6Tada im reèe Isus: vrijeme moje još nije došlo, a vrijeme je vaše svagda gotovo. 7Ne može svijet mrziti na vas: a na mene mrzi, jer ja svjedoèim za nj da su djela njegova zla. 8Vi iziðite na praznik ovaj: ja još neæu iziæi na praznik ovaj, jer se moje vrijeme još nije navršilo. 9Rekavši im ovo osta u Galileji. 10A kad iziðoše braæa njegova na praznik, tada i sam iziðe, ne javno nego kao tajno. 11A Jevreji ga tražahu na praznik i govorahu: gdje je on? 12I bijahu za nj mnoge raspre u narodu: jedni govorahu da je dobar, a drugi: nije, nego vara narod. 13Ali niko ne govoraše javno za nj od straha Jevrejskoga.

Hieromartyr Basil, bishop of Amasia and Righteous Virgin Glaphyra (322)

Licinius was co-emperor with Constantine the Great. At his accession, he had agreed to tolerate Christianity in his territories, but soon turned to persecuting the Christians, and to a variety of carnal sins. He conceived a passion for Glaphyra, a Christian virgin handmaid of the Empress Constantia. When Glaphyra told Constantia of this, the Empress sent her away to Amasia in the East for her protection. There she was received and protected by Bishop Basil of that city. Licinius learned where Glaphyra was hiding and ordered that both she and the bishop be brought to him as prisoners. The soldiers who came for her found that she had already died, so they returned with only Bishop Basil, who was subjected to cruel tortures, then beheaded. His body was cast into the sea, but, with the help of an angel of God, his people found his body, retrieved it from the sea, and returned it to Amasia.

The Prologue adds, “The Emperor Constantine raised an army against Licinius, overcame him, arrested him and sent him into exile in Gaul, where he ended his God-hating days.”

St Stephen,Bishop of Perm (1396)

As a young man he entered monastic life at the monastery of St Gregory the Theologian in Rostov. Learning that the land of Perm (on the western slopes of the Ural Mountains) was still immured in paganism, he was filled with a desire to bring the Gospel to its people. He set about learning the language, created an alphabet and translated the service books. With the blessing of the Metropolitan of Moscow he then set out and began his apostolic labors. When, after much difficulty and many sufferings, he had gathered a community of baptised Christians, he was made Bishop of the region. Once, in his old age, he returned to Moscow, where he reposed in 1396.