The Holy Hieromartyr Dionysius the Areopagite.
Abstention from meat and foods that contain meat.
Ephesians 4:17-25; Mark 12:1-12.
Read Mark 12:1-12
This parable can be understood as a prophecy. The obvious targets of this parable are the scribes, pharisees and elders of the Jewish Sanhedrin. Jesus is warning them that mistreatment of Him will not go unpunished by His Father and that their rejection of Him will only result in His vindication. When we look back we realize that Jesus already knew what was going to take place, that He would be killed only to rise again and become the foundation of the new Israel. His Church would be establisehed not by the old priesthood but by a new priesthood, the apostles, that Jesus is in the process of now establishing. This again gives us reassurance of the divinity of Jesus Christ, for he foretold ahead of time what would happen before anyone else even imagined that the Jewish leaders would be replaced by such lowly and uneducated people as His apostles, and that this Church would still exist even to this present day and to the end of the world.