Wednesday, February 12, 2059

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

Fasting: 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

James 3.11-4.6

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3:11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?Log in to add notes

3:12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.Log in to add notes

3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.Log in to add notes

3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.Log in to add notes

3:15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.Log in to add notes

3:16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.Log in to add notes

3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Log in to add notes

3:18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.Log in to add notes

4:1From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?Log in to add notes

4:2Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.Log in to add notes

4:3Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.Log in to add notes

4:4Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.Log in to add notes

4:5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?Log in to add notes

4:6But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.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 11.22-26

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22And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.Log in to add notes

23For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.Log in to add notes

24Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.Log in to add notes

25And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.Log in to add notes

26But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.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