30. јун 2028.
Friday of the 4th week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast

Commemorations

Martyrs Manuel, Sabael, and Ismael of Persia (362)
Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)

Scripture Readings

Romans 11.25-36 (Epistle)

25Jer vam, braæo, neæu zatajiti tajne ove da ne budete ponositi da šljepota Izrailju pade u dijel dokle ne uðe neznabožaca koliko treba. 26I tako æe se spasti sav Izrailj, kao što je napisano: doæi æe od Siona izbavitelj i odvratiæe bezbožnost od Jakova. 27I ovo im je moj zavjet kad otmem njihove grijehe. 28Po jevanðelju dakle neprijatelji su vas radi; a po izboru ljubazni su otaca radi. 29Jer se Bog neæe raskajati za svoje darove i zvanje. 30Jer kao i vi što se nekad suproæaste Bogu a sad biste pomilovani njihovoga radi suproæenja, 31Tako i oni sad ne htješe da vjeruju vašega radi pomilovanja da bi i oni bili pomilovani. 32Jer Bog zatvori sve u nevjerstvo, da sve pomiluje. 33O dubino bogatstva i premudrosti i razuma Božijega! kako su neispitljivi njegovi sudovi i neistražljivi njegovi putovi! 34Jer ko pozna misao Gospodnju? 35Ili ko mu bi savjetnik? Ili ko mu naprijed dade što, da mu se vrati? 36Jer je od njega i kroz njega i u njemu sve. Njemu slava vavijek. Amin.

Matthew 12.1-8 (Gospel)

1U to vrijeme iðaše Isus u subotu kroz usjeve: a uèenici njegovi ogladnješe, i poèeše trgati klasje, i jesti. 2A fariseji vidjevši to rekoše mu: gle, uèenici tvoji èine što ne valja èiniti u subotu. 3A on reèe im: nijeste li èitali što uèini David kad ogladnje, on i koji bijahu s njim? 4Kako uðe u kuæu Božiju, i hljebove postavljene pojede, kojijeh nije valjalo jesti njemu ni onima što su bili s njim, nego samijem sveštenicima. 5Ili nijeste èitali u zakonu kako u subotu sveštenici u crkvi subotu pogane, pa nijesu krivi? 6A ja vam kažem da je ovdje onaj koji je veæi od crkve. 7Kad biste pak znali šta je to: milosti hoæu a ne priloga, nikad ne biste osuðivali pravijeh; 8Jer je gospodar i od subote sin èovjeèij.

Commemorations

Martyrs Manuel, Sabael, and Ismael of Persia (362)

“The holy Martyrs Manuel, Sabel, and Ishmael, Persians by race and brethren according to the flesh, were sent by the Persian King as ambassadors to Julian the Apostate to negotiate a peace treaty. While with him at a place near Chalcedon, they refused to join him in offering sacrifice to his idols. Scorning the immunity universally accorded ambassadors, he had them slain in the year 362. This was a cause of the war with Persia in which Julian perished miserably the following year.” (Great Horologion)

Our Holy Father Botolph, Abbot of the Monastery of Ikanhoe (680)

‘Saint Botolph was born in Britain about the year 610 and in his youth became a monk in Gaul. The sisters of Ethelmund, King of East Anglia, who were also sent to Gaul to learn the monastic discipline, met Saint Botolph, and learning of his intention to return to Britain, bade their brother the King grant him land on which to found a monastery. Hearing the King’s offer, Saint Botolph asked for land not already in any man’s possession, not wishing that his gain should come through another’s loss, and chose a certain desolate place called Ikanhoe. At his coming, the demons inhabiting Ikanhoe rose up against him with tumult, threats, and horrible apparitions, but the Saint drove them away with the sign of the Cross and his prayer. Through his monastery he established in England the rule of monastic life that he had learned in Gaul. He worked signs and wonders, had the gift of prophecy, and “was distinguished for his sweetness of disposition and affability.” In the last years of his life he bore a certain painful sickness with great patience, giving thanks like Job and continuing to instruct his spiritual children in the rules of the monastic life. He fell asleep in peace about the year 680. His relics were later found incorrupt, and giving off a sweet fragrance. The place where he founded his monastery came to be called “Botolphson” (from either “Botolph’s stone” or “Botolph’s town”) which was later contracted to “Boston.”’ (Great Horologion)