Monday, February 12, 2001

Synaxis 3 Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom

Fasting: No fastVigilJulian: January 30

Vespers

Deuteronomy 1.8-11; Deuteronomy 1.15-17

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8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.Log in to add notes

9And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:Log in to add notes

10The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.Log in to add notes

11(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)Log in to add notes

15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.Log in to add notes

16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.Log in to add notes

17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Deuteronomy 10.14-21

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14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.Log in to add notes

15Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.Log in to add notes

16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.Log in to add notes

17For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:Log in to add notes

18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.Log in to add notes

19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.Log in to add notes

20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.Log in to add notes

21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Wisdom of Solomon 3.1-9

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1But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shall no torment touch them.Log in to add notes

2In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die: and their departure is taken for misery,Log in to add notes

3And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are in peace.Log in to add notes

4For though they be punished in the sight of men, yet is their hope full of immortality.Log in to add notes

5And having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded: for God proved them, and found them worthy for himself.Log in to add notes

6As gold in the furnace hath he tried them, and received them as a burnt offering.Log in to add notes

7And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, and run to and fro like sparks among the stubble.Log in to add notes

8They shall judge the nations, and have dominion over the people, and their Lord shall reign for ever.Log in to add notes

9They that put their trust in him shall understand the truth: and such as be faithful in love shall abide with him: for grace and mercy is to his saints, and he hath care for his elect.Log in to add notes

Matins Gospel

John 10.9-16

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9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes

10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.Log in to add notes

11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Log in to add notes

12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.Log in to add notes

13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Log in to add notes

14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.Log in to add notes

15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.Log in to add notes

16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.Log in to add notes

Epistle

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

Epistle — Hierarchs

Hebrews 13.7-16

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7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.Log in to add notes

8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.Log in to add notes

9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.Log in to add notes

10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.Log in to add notes

11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.Log in to add notes

12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.Log in to add notes

13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.Log in to add notes

14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.Log in to add notes

15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.Log in to add notes

16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.Log in to add notes

Gospel

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

Gospel — Hierarchs

Matthew 5.14-19

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14Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.Log in to add notes

15Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.Log in to add notes

16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.Log in to add notes

17Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.Log in to add notes

18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.Log in to add notes

19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.Log in to add notes