Thursday, October 21, 2010

Greek Orthodox Christianity: Daily Readings For 21 October

From The Greek Orthodox Diocese of America:

Readings for today:




St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11

Luke 9:49-56



Feasts and Saints celebrated today:



Thursday of the 5th Week

Hilarion the Great

Our Righteous Father Christodoulus, the Wonderworker of Patmos

Martyrs Theodote and Socrates

John the New Martyr of Peleponnesos

Righteous Philotheus





Epistle Reading



The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians 9:6-11



BRETHREN, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows

bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do as he has made up

his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a

cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in

abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide

in abundance for every good work. As it is written, "He scatters

abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever." He who

supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply

your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You

will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us

will produce thanksgiving to God.



(C) 2010 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America



Gospel Reading



The reading is from Luke 9:49-56



At that time, one of Jesus' disciples came to him and said, "Master,

we saw a man casting out demons in your name, and we forbade him,

because he does not follow with us." But Jesus said to him, "Do not

forbid him; for he that is not against you is for you." When the days

drew near for him to be received up, he set his face to go to

Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a

village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him; but the people would

not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when

his disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us

to bid fire come down from heaven and consume them?" But he turned

and rebuked them. And they went on to another village.



(C) 2010 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America





Hilarion the Great



Reading from the Synaxarion:



This Saint was born at Tabatha, near Gaza in Palestine, of pagan

parents. Sent as a young man to Alexandria to be educated, he learned the

Christian Faith and was baptized. While in Egypt he heard the fame of Saint

Anthony the Great, and upon meeting that truly great man, the Father of

monks, Saint Hilarion determined to devote himself also to the ascetical

life. He returned to Gaza, when, he gave himself over to extreme

fasting and unceasing prayer. Because of the miracles which he soon began

to work, he found himself compelled by his growing renown to leave

Gaza, to escape from the throngs of people coming to ask his prayers.

In his journeys he visited Egypt, and came again with longing to the

place where Saint Anthony had lived; but he was not able to remain in

any one place for long, since despite all his attempts to conceal

himself, the light of the grace that was in him could not be hid. After

passing through Egypt and Libya, and sailing to Sicily, he came at last

to Cyprus, where he ended the course of his life at the age of

eighty, in the year 372.



Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone

With the rivers of your tears, you have made the barren desert

fertile. Through sighs of sorrow from deep within you, your labors have

borne fruit a hundred-fold. By your miracles you have become a light,

shining upon the world. O Hilarion, our Holy Father, pray to Christ our

God, to save our souls.



Kontakion in the Third Tone

As we gather on this day, we sing thy praise and acclaim thee as a

never-setting light of the bright spiritual Daystar. Those whom ignorance

benighted, thou didst illumine with thy beams; and thou dost raise unto the

divine heights, O Hilarion, our Father, all them that cry out: Height

of ascetics, Rejoice!



Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery

Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press

Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery





Our Righteous Father Christodoulus, the Wonderworker of Patmos

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