Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles

Fasting: No fastPolyeleosJulian: June 30

Epistle

1 Corinthians 10.5-12

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5But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.Log in to add notes

6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.Log in to add notes

7Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.Log in to add notes

8Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.Log in to add notes

9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.Log in to add notes

10Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.Log in to add notes

11Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.Log in to add notes

12Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.Log in to add notes

Epistle — Apostles

1 Corinthians 4.9-16

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9For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.Log in to add notes

10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.Log in to add notes

11Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;Log in to add notes

12And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:Log in to add notes

13Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.Log in to add notes

14I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.Log in to add notes

15For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.Log in to add notes

16Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 16.6-12

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6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.Log in to add notes

7And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.Log in to add notes

8Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?Log in to add notes

9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?Log in to add notes

10Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?Log in to add notes

11How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?Log in to add notes

12Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.Log in to add notes

Gospel — Apostles

Mark 3.13-19

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13And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.Log in to add notes

14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,Log in to add notes

15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:Log in to add notes

16And Simon he surnamed Peter;Log in to add notes

17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:Log in to add notes

18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,Log in to add notes

19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.Log in to add notes