Wednesday, March 13, 1912

Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent

Fasting: Great LentPresanctifiedJulian: February 29

6th Hour

Isaiah 26.21-27.9

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26:21For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.Log in to add notes

27:1In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.Log in to add notes

27:2In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.Log in to add notes

27:3I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.Log in to add notes

27:4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.Log in to add notes

27:5Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.Log in to add notes

27:6He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.Log in to add notes

27:7Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?Log in to add notes

27:8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.Log in to add notes

27:9By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Genesis 9.18-10.1

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9:18And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.Log in to add notes

9:19These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.Log in to add notes

9:20And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:Log in to add notes

9:21And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.Log in to add notes

9:22And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.Log in to add notes

9:23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.Log in to add notes

9:24And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.Log in to add notes

9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.Log in to add notes

9:26And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.Log in to add notes

9:27God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.Log in to add notes

9:28And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.Log in to add notes

9:29And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.Log in to add notes

10:1Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Proverbs 12.23-13.9

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12:23A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.Log in to add notes

12:24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.Log in to add notes

12:25Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.Log in to add notes

12:26The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.Log in to add notes

12:27The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.Log in to add notes

12:28In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.Log in to add notes

13:1A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.Log in to add notes

13:2A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.Log in to add notes

13:3He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.Log in to add notes

13:4The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.Log in to add notes

13:5A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.Log in to add notes

13:6Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.Log in to add notes

13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.Log in to add notes

13:8The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.Log in to add notes

13:9The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.Log in to add notes

Epistle — St John

1 John 2.18-3.10

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2:18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.Log in to add notes

2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.Log in to add notes

2:20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.Log in to add notes

2:21I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.Log in to add notes

2:22Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.Log in to add notes

2:23Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.Log in to add notes

2:24Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.Log in to add notes

2:25And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.Log in to add notes

2:26These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.Log in to add notes

2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.Log in to add notes

2:28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.Log in to add notes

2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.Log in to add notes

3:1Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.Log in to add notes

3:2Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.Log in to add notes

3:3And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.Log in to add notes

3:4Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.Log in to add notes

3:5And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.Log in to add notes

3:6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.Log in to add notes

3:7Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.Log in to add notes

3:8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.Log in to add notes

3:9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.Log in to add notes

3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.Log in to add notes

Gospel — St John

Mark 11.1-11

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1And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,Log in to add notes

2And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.Log in to add notes

3And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.Log in to add notes

4And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.Log in to add notes

5And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?Log in to add notes

6And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.Log in to add notes

7And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.Log in to add notes

8And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.Log in to add notes

9And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:Log in to add notes

10Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.Log in to add notes

11And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.Log in to add notes