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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Fast Day (Fish Allowed)
Readings for today:
Matthew 2:13-23
St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16
John 1:35-52
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Andrew the First- Called Apostle
Froumentios, Archbishop of Abyssina
Orthros Gospel Reading
The reading is from Matthew 2:13-23
When the wise men departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to
Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and
flee to Egypt, and remain there till I tell you; for Herod is about to
search for the child, to destroy him." And he rose and took the child
and his mother by night, and departed to Egypt, and remained there
until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken
by the prophet, "Out of Egypt have I called my son."
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was
in a furious rage, and he sent and killed all the male children in
Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according
to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men. Then was
fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah: "A voice was heard in
Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children;
she refused to be consoled, because they were no more." But when
Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph
in Egypt, saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and go to
the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."
And he rose and took the child and his mother, and went to the land
of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaos reigned over Judea in
place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned
in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. And he went and
dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets
might be fulfilled, "He shall be called a Nazarene."
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Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 4:9-16
BRETHREN, God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced
to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels
and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in
Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in
disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and
buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When
reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to
conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the
off-scouring of all things. I do not write this to make you ashamed, but to
admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides
in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in
Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
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Gospel Reading
The reading is from John 1:35-52
At that time, John was standing with two of his disciples; and he
looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" The
two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. Jesus
turned, and saw them following, and said to them, "What do you seek?" And
they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "Where are you
staying?" He said to them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he was
staying; and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth
hour. One of the two who heard John speak, and followed him, was
Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first found his brother Simon, and said
to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ). He brought
him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "So you are Simon the
son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. And he found Philip and
said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have
found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus
of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." Nathanael said to him, "Can
anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said of him, "Behold, an
Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile! " Nathanael said to him, "How do you
know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, when you were
under the fig tree, I saw you." Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are
the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!" Jesus answered him,
"Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You
shall see greater things than these." And he said to him, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God
ascending and descending upon the Son of man."
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Andrew the First- Called Apostle
Reading from the Synaxarion:
This Saint was from Bethsaida of Galilee; he was the son of Jonas and
the brother of Peter, the chief of the Apostles. He had first been a
disciple of John the Baptist; afterwards, on hearing the Baptist's witness
concerning Jesus, when he pointed Him out with his finger and said, "Behold
the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin of the world" (John
1.29,36), he straightway followed Christ, and became His first disciple;
wherefore he is called the First-called of the Apostles. After the
Ascension of the Saviour, he preached in various lands; and having suffered
many things for His Name's sake, he died in Patras of Achaia, where he
was crucified on a cross in the shape of an "X," the first letter of
"Christ" in Greek; this cross is also the symbol of Saint Andrew.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
As first of the Apostles to be called, O Andrew, brother of him
(Peter) who was foremost, beseech the Master of all to grant the world
peace and our souls great mercy.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
Let us praise the namesake of bravery, the divinely eloquent and
first to be called of the Disciples of Christ, the kinsman of Peter. As
he called out to him in days of old, so now he calls to us, "Come,
we have found Him for whom we yearned."
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press
Kontakion courtesy of Narthex Press
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