Sunday, February 12, 2012

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 Corinthians 6.12-20

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12All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.Log in to add notes

13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.Log in to add notes

14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.Log in to add notes

15Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.Log in to add notes

16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.Log in to add notes

17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.Log in to add notes

18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.Log in to add notes

19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?Log in to add notes

20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.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

Luke 15.11-32

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11And he said, A certain man had two sons:Log in to add notes

12And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.Log in to add notes

13And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.Log in to add notes

14And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.Log in to add notes

15And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.Log in to add notes

16And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.Log in to add notes

17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!Log in to add notes

18I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,Log in to add notes

19And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.Log in to add notes

20And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.Log in to add notes

21And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.Log in to add notes

22But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:Log in to add notes

23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:Log in to add notes

24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.Log in to add notes

25Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.Log in to add notes

26And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.Log in to add notes

27And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.Log in to add notes

28And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.Log in to add notes

29And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:Log in to add notes

30But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.Log in to add notes

31And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.Log in to add notes

32It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.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