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.

Holy Martyr Emilian (362)

He was from the town of Dorostolon in Thrace and during the reign of Julian the Apostate became a servant of the governor in that region. Before the time of his martyrdom he was a secret Christian. An imperial legate arrived in the town with orders to seize all Christians, but failed to find any; to show his pleasure he ordered a great feast for the whole town, complete with sacrifices to the pagan gods. On the night before the appointed feast, Emilian went around the town and smashed all the idols with a hammer. The following day there was an uproar, and an innocent villager was seized and charged with the crime. Emilian, seeing this, said to himself ‘If I conceal my action, what sort of use has it been? Shall I not stand before God as the slayer of an innocent man?’ So he presented himself to the legate and confessed what he had done. When the furious official asked Emilian on whose orders he had acted, Emilian replied ‘God and my soul commanded me to destroy those dead pillars that you call gods.’ As punishment, Emilian was subjected to many tortures and finally burned alive.

St Pambo, hermit of Egypt (374? 386?)

Abba Pambo was a contemporary of St Anthony the Great and one of the greatest of the Desert Fathers. He would only eat bread which he had earned by his own labors, plaiting baskets and mats out of reeds. In his later years, he became in appearance like an angel of God: his face shone so that the monks could not look on it. Through long ascetic labor, he was enabled to control his tongue so that no unnecessary word ever passed his lips. He never gave an immediate answer to even the simplest question, but always prayed and pondered on the question first. Once, when Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, was visiting the monks, they begged Abba Pambo to give the Patriarch a word. He answered: ‘If my silence is no help to him, neither will my words be.’ He reposed in peace, some say in 374, others in 386.