6. септембар 2028.
Wednesday of the 14th week after Pentecost

Fast

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)
New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)
Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

Scripture Readings

2 Corinthians 13.3-14 (Epistle)

3Jer tražite da iskušate Hrista što u meni govori, koji meðu vama nije slab, nego je silan meðu vama. 4Jer ako i raspet bi po slabosti, ali je živ po sili Božijoj; jer smo i mi slabi u njemu, ali æemo biti živi s njim silom Božijom meðu vama. 5Sami sebe okušajte jeste li u vjeri, sami sebe ogledajte. Ili ne poznajete sebe da je Isus Hristos u vama? veæ ako da u èemu nijeste valjani. 6A nadam se da æete poznati da mi nijesmo nevaljani. 7A molimo se Bogu da vi ne èinite nikakva zla, ne da se mi valjani pokažemo, nego da vi dobro èinite, a mi kao nevaljani da budemo. 8Jer ništa ne možemo na istinu nego za istinu. 9Jer se radujemo kad mi slabimo a vi jaèate. A zato se i molimo Bogu, za vaše savršenstvo. 10Zato, ne buduæi kod vas, pišem ovo da kad doðem ne uèinim bez šteðenja po vlasti koju mi je Gospod dao na popravljanje a ne na raskopavanje. 11A dalje, braæo, radujte se, savršujte se, utješavajte se, jednako mislite, mir imajte: i Bog ljubavi i mira biæe s vama. 12Pozdravite jedan drugoga cjelivom svetijem. Pozdravljaju vas svi sveti. 13Blagodat Gospoda našega Isusa Hrista i ljubav Boga i oca i zajednica svetoga Duha sa svima vama. Amin.

Mark 4.35-41 (Gospel)

35I reèe im onaj dan uveèe: hajdemo na onu stranu. 36I otpustivši narod uzeše ga kako bješe u laði; a i druge laðe bijahu s njim. 37I postade velika oluja; i valovi tako zaljevahu u laðu da se veæ napuni. 38A on na krmi spavaše na uzglavlju; i probudiše ga, i rekoše mu: uèitelju! zar ti ne mariš što ginemo? 39I ustavši zaprijeti vjetru, i reèe moru: æuti, prestani. I utoli vjetar, i postade tišina velika. 40I reèe im: zašto ste tako strašljivi? Kako nemate vjere. 41I uplašiše se vrlo, i govorahu jedan drugome: ko je ovaj dakle da ga i vjetar i more slušaju?

Commemorations

Hieromartyr Eutyches (1st c.)

He was a disciple and friend of St John the Theologian, and worked with the Apostle Paul, and is himself named as an Apostle though he is not one of the Seventy. He travelled widely in the ministry of the Gospel of Christ, suffering many imprisonments and tortures. He died in Sebastia, the place of his birth. The Prologue says that he was beheaded, the Great Horologion that he reposed in peace “in deep old age.”

New Hieromartyr Kosmas of Aitolia, Equal-to-the-Apostles (1779)

This recent Equal to the Apostles was born in Mega Dendron (Great Tree) in Aetolia. He became a monk on Mt Athos, where he lived and prayed for many years. But he was troubled by the ignorance of the Gospel that had fallen on many of the Orthodox people, living under the oppression of the Ottoman Turks. He went to Constantinople, where he studied the rhetorical arts and received the blessing of Patriarch Seraphim II to preach the Gospel. He travelled throughout Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Albania, preaching at every town he visited. Often not only Greeks but many Muslims would come to hear him, so great was his reputation for holiness. Though he always sought the blessing of the local bishop and the local Turkish governor before he preached in an area, his strong condemnations of dishonest business practices aroused the enmity of Orthodox Christian and Jewish merchants, who falsely accused him to the authorities. He was strangled by the Turks and thrown into a river in Albania, but his wonderworking relics were preserved. He reposed at the age of sixty-five.

Translation of the relics of St Peter, metropolitan of Kiev (1479)

See December 21 for his life.