Romans 10.11-11.2 (Epistle)

11Jer pismo govori: koji ga god vjeruje neæe se postidjeti. 12Jer nema razlike meðu Jevrejinom i Grkom: jer je on Bog sviju, i bogat za sve koji ga prizivlju. 13Jer koji god prizove ime Gospodnje spašæe se. 14Kako æe dakle prizvati koga ne vjerovaše? A kako æe vjerovati koga ne èuše? A kako æe èuti bez propovjednika? 15A kako æe propovijedati ako ne budu poslani? Kao što stoji napisano: kako su krasne noge onijeh koji donose glas za mir, koji donose glas za dobro! 16Ali svi ne poslušaše jevanðelja: jer Isaija govori: Gospode! ko vjerova našemu propovijedanju? 17Tako dakle vjera biva od propovijedanja, a propovijedanje rijeèju Božijom. 18Nego velim: zar ne èuše? Još otide po svoj zemlji glas njihov, i po krajevima vasionoga svijeta rijeèi njihove. 19Nego velim: zar ne razumje Izrailj? Prvi Mojsije govori: ja æu vas razdražiti, ne svojijem narodom, nerazumnijem narodom rasrdiæu vas. 20A Isaija govori slobodno: naðoše me koji me ne traže; i javih se onima koji za me ne pitaju. 21A k Izrailju govori: vas dan pružah ruke svoje k narodu koji ne da da mu se kaže i odgovara nasuprot.

1Govorim dakle: eda li Bog odbaci narod svoj? Bože saèuvaj! Jer sam i ja Izrailjac od sjemena Avraamova od koljena Venijaminova. 2Ne odbaci Bog naroda svojega, koji naprijed pozna. Ili ne znate šta govori pismo za Iliju kako se tuži Bogu na Izrailja govoreæi:

Matthew 11.16-20 (Gospel)

16Ali kakav æu kazati da je ovaj rod? On je kao djeca koja sjede po ulicama i vièu svojijem drugovima, 17I govore: svirasmo vam, i ne igraste; žalismo vam se, i ne jaukaste. 18Jer Jovan doðe, koji ni jede ni pije, a oni kažu: ðavo je u njemu. 19Doðe sin èovjeèij, koji i jede i pije, a oni kažu: gle èovjeka izjelice i pijanice, druga carinicima i grješnicima. I opravdaše premudrost djeca njezina. 20Tada poèe Isus vikati na gradove u kojima su se dogodila najveæa èudesa njegova, pa se nijesu pokajali:

Holy Prophet Elisha (Elisseus) (10th c. BC)

The disciple and spiritual heir of the Prophet Elijah (July 20), his story can be found in II Kings. Unlike most of the Old Testament prophets, he was granted the gift of working many miracles. He reposed in peace at a great age. The Fathers tell us that he was anointed by Elijah in the year 908 BC and reposed in peace at a great age in 839 BC. He was buried in Samaria. Even after his death, miracles of wonderworking were performed through his relics.

St Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (847)

He was born to wealthy parents in Syracuse of Sicily. He entered monastic life and in time became a priest in the service of Patriarch Nikephoros. Because of his great and well-known zeal for the holy icons, he was cruelly persecuted by a succession of iconoclast emperors. Around 815, he was sent as an ambassador to Rome on behalf of the Patriarch, who had been exiled by the Emperor Leo the Armenian. When he returned to Constantinople upon Leo’s death, he was immediately exiled and imprisoned by Leo’s successor, Michael the Stutterer. Upon Michael’s death he was freed for a short time, but soon the Emperor Theophilus had him exiled to an island where, says the Prologue, “he spent seven years in prison with two common robbers, in damp conditions, without light and without sufficient food, as if in a grave.” When the pious Empress Theodora restored the Empire to Orthodoxy, he was freed and elevated to Patriarch of Constantinople. On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, we commemorate the restoration of the Holy Icons by Theodora and Methodios. Despite many attacks by heretics while he was Patriarch, he served faithfully and reposed in peace.

St John Mavropos, Metropolitan of Euchaïta(1100)

He is commemorated today on the Slavic Calendar; for his life, see October 5, his commemoration on the Greek Calendar.