Galatians 2.21-3.7 (Epistle)

21Ne odbacujem blagodati Božije; jer ako pravda kroz zakon dolazi, to Hristos uzalud umrije.

1O nerazumni Galati! ko vas je opèinio da se ne pokoravate istini? Vi, kojima pred oèima bješe napisan Isus Hristos, a sad se meðu vama razape. 2Ovo jedno hoæu od vas da doznam, ili Duha primiste kroz djela zakona ili kroz èuvenje vjere? 3Tako li ste nerazumni? Poèevši Duhom, sad tijelom svršujete? 4Tako li uzalud postradaste? Kad bi bilo samo uzalud! 5Koji vam dakle daje Duha i èini èudesa meðu vama, èini li djelima zakona ili èuvenjem vjere? 6Kao što Avraam vjerova Bogu, i primi mu se u pravdu. 7Poznajte dakle da su oni sinovi Avraamovi koji su od vjere.

Mark 6.1-7 (Gospel)

1I iziðe odande, i doðe na svoju postojbinu; i za njim idoše uèenici njegovi. 2I kad doðe subota, poèe uèiti u zbornici. I mnogi koji slušahu, divljahu se govoreæi: otkud ovome to? I kakva mu je premudrost dana? I èudesa takova rukama njegovijem èine se? 3Nije li ovo drvodjelja, sin Marijin, a brat Jakovljev i Josijin i Judin i Simonov? I nijesu li sestre njegove ovdje meðu nama? I sablažnjavahu se o njega. 4A Isus reèe im: nigdje nije prorok bez èasti do na postojbini svojoj i u rodu i u domu svome. 5I ne mogaše ondje nijednoga èuda da uèini, osim što malo bolesnika iscijeli metnuvši na njih ruke. 6I divljaše se nevjerstvu njihovome. I iðaše po okolnijem selima i uèaše. 7I dozva dvanaestoricu, i poèe ih slati dva i dva, i davaše im vlast nad duhovima neèistijem.

Synaxis of Serbian Hierarchs

On this day are commemorated seventeen holy Serbian hierarchs, beginning with St Sava (Sabbas), first Archbishop of Serbia and Equal to the Apostles. They are:

• St Sava, first Archbishop of Serbia, Equal to the Apostles
• Arsenius, his successor
• Sava II, son of King Stephen the First-Crowned
• Nicodemus, who lived on the Holy Mountain, was abbot of Hilandar Monastery there and Archbishop of Serbia
• Joannicius, patriarch from 1346-1349
• Ephraim, chosen as patriarch against his will in 1376. He crowned Prince Lazar, then renounced the patriarchal throne and retired into solitude
• Spiridon, his successor (+1388)
• Macarius, a great restorer of old churches and monasteries; printed many Church books (+1574)
• Gabriel, a nobleman by birth. The Prologue says that he ‘took part in the Moscow Council under Patriarch Nikhon, because of which he was tortured by the Turks for treason and hanged in 1656.’
• In addition, Eustace, Jacob, Danilo, Sava III, Gregory, John, Maxim and Nikhon.

Sts Alexander (340), John (595), and Paul the New (784), patriarchs of Constantinople

St Alexander took part in the First Ecumenical Council as delegate of Patriarch Metrophanes, who was too frail to attend; and succeeded Metrophanes on the Patriarchal throne. By his prayer to God that the Church might be spared the schemings of Arius, Arius was struck dead.

St John is, by one account, St John the Faster (Sept. 2), who reposed in 595; by another, St John Scholasticus (Feb. 21), who reposed in 577.

St Paul was Patriarch for five years, then renounced the Patriarchal throne to take the Great Schema.