3. јул 2028.
Monday of the 5th week after Pentecost

Apostles Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)
St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)
Blessed Studios (5th c.)

Scripture Readings

Romans 12.4-5, 15-21 (Epistle)

4Jer kao u jednom tijelu što imamo mnoge ude a udi svi nemaju jedan posao, 5Tako smo mnogi jedno tijelo u Hristu, a po sebi smo udi jedan drugome. 15Radujte se s radosnima, i plaèite s plaènima. 16Budite jedne misli meðu sobom. Ne mislite o visokijem stvarima, nego se držite niskijeh. Ne mislite za sebe da ste mudri. 17A nikome ne vraæajte zla za zlo; promišljajte o tom što je dobro pred svijem ljudima. 18Ako je moguæe, koliko do vas stoji, imajte mir sa svijem ljudima. 19Ne osveæujte se za sebe, ljubazni, nego podajte mjesto gnjevu, jer stoji napisano: moja je osveta, ja æu vratiti, govori Gospod. 20Ako je dakle gladan neprijatelj tvoj, nahrani ga; ako je žedan, napoj ga; jer èineæi to ugljevlje ognjeno skupljaš na glavu njegovu. 21Ne daj se zlu nadvladati, nego nadvladaj zlo dobrom.

Matthew 12.9-13 (Gospel)

9I otišavši odande doðe u zbornicu njihovu. 10I gle, èovjek bijaše tu s rukom suhom; i zapitaše ga govoreæi: valja li u subotu lijeèiti? da bi ga okrivili. 11A on reèe im: koji je meðu vama èovjek koji ima ovcu jednu pa ako ona u subotu upadne u jamu neæe je uzeti i izvaditi? 12A koliko li je èovjek pretežniji od ovce? Daklem valja u subotu dobro èiniti. 13Tada reèe èovjeku: pruži ruku svoju. I pruži. I postade zdrava kao i druga.

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara/Olympia (312)

Noted in his own time for his wisdom and virtue, he was called Eubolos, meaning “of good counsel.” He was among the first to oppose the heretical writings of Origen. He was bishop in Patara (according to some sources) or Olympia (according to others), then of Tyre in Phoenecia. Under the Emperor Maximinus, he was attacked by the pagans and received the crown of martyrdom in Chalkis in Greece.

St Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople (1363)

For twenty-eight years he lived the ascetical life on Mt Athos as a disciple of St Gregory of Mt Sinai. Later, he founded the monastery of St Mamas, also on Mt Athos. In 1350 he was elected Patriarch of Constantinople. After four years, he resigned the patriarchal throne to return to the Holy Mountain, but was called back to the throne, where he remained until his death in 1363. He wrote the definitive lives of St Gregory the Sinaite and St Theodosius of Trnovo. He was known to St Maximos Kapsokalyvia (the Hut-burner), who foretold his death: On his final journey to Serbia, on which he died, the Patriarch stopped on Mt Athos, where St Maximos saw him and said, “This elder will not see his flock again, because I hear behind him the hymn over the grave, ‘Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way…’”

Blessed Studios (5th c.)

He was a prominent nobleman and consul in Constantinople. In the City he founded both the Church of St John the Forerunner in 463, and the monastery thereafter called the Studion in honor of him. The Studion monastery nurtured a long line of ascetics, teachers, and martyrs; perhaps the best known is St Theodore the Studite (November 11), the great defender of the holy icons. The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.