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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, November 15, 2010
Fast Day (Fish Allowed)
Readings for today:
St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy 1:1-7
Luke 14:1, 12-15
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Monday of the 9th Week
Gurias, Samonas, & Avivos, Martyrs & Confessors of Edessa
Thomas, Archbishop of Constantinople
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to Timothy 1:1-7
PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of
Christ Jesus our hope. To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace,
mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. As I
urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesos that you may
charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to
occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote
speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith; whereas the aim
of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good
conscience and sincere faith. Certain persons by swerving from these have
wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law,
without understanding either what they are saying or the things about
which they make assertions.
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Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 14:1, 12-15
At that time, Jesus entered the home of a certain ruler of the
Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread. He said also to the man who had
invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your
friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they
also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a
feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be
blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the
resurrection of the just." When one of those who sat at table with him heard
this, he said to him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom
of God!"
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Gurias, Samonas, & Avivos, Martyrs & Confessors of Edessa
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Of these most illustrious Martyrs of the city of Edessa in Syria,
Guria and Shamuna contested during the reign of Diocletian, in 288;
after many tortures, they were cast into prison, then beheaded. Saint
Habib, a deacon, contested in the days of Licinius, in the year 316, and
was burned alive; he was buried with Saints Guria and Shamuna. The
three have one common feast, and it is always together that they are
portrayed in icons and invoked by the faithful.On account of a renowned
miracle they worked, they are invoked for help in marital difficulties. A
certain Goth had come with the Roman army to Edessa and was quartered in
the house of a pious widow named Sophia. The Goth asked Sophia for
the hand of her daughter, Euphemia; after resisting for a long time,
Sophia at last agreed. When it was time for the army to return home,
Sophia made the Goth vow by the power in the holy Martyrs Shamuna,
Guria, and Habib, to keep Euphemia as the apple of his eye. As he was
nearing his home, however, the treacherous man revealed to Euphemia that
he already had a wife. Euphemia was compelled to serve the Goths
wife, who dealt with her mercilessly. After extreme sufferings, which
included being sealed alive in a tomb and left there to die, Euphemia was
miraculously conveyed to Edessa, to the very shrine of the holy Martyrs whose
surety they had taken, and was reunited with her mother through their
holy prayers.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Since Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy holy Martyrs as an
invincible battlement, by their entreaties, scatter the counsels of the
heathen, O Christ our God, and strengthen the faith of Orthodox
Christians, since Thou alone art good and the Friend of man.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
O yoke-mate of Paul, together with him, thou didst preach the
tidings to us of saving grace bestowed of God, O Apostle Titus, blest and
elect revealer of mysteries; for which cause we cry out to thee: Cease
not to entreat Christ God for all of us.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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