Thursday, December 30, 2010

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Daily Readings For Friday, 31 December

From armenianchurch-ed.net, biblical proportions.com, biblegateway.com:

Daily Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  the Fast of the Nativity (Hisnag)


Daily Prayer:

1st Prayer: December 31,2010


Indeed, all these are yours, Lord of mercy,

not just in words, but also in reality,

especially are you foremost among

the martyrs in your patient suffering,

you, who for my salvation

came to the battlefield in force to soften

the stiff-necked unruliness of my haughty body

with the tempering instruction of tormenting tribulation

and taking our nature, bore on your blameless body

the penalty of grievous torment

in order to teach by your example

the mercy you have for us.

Ever blessed.

Amen.

 
 
Scriptural Readings:

Hebrews 10:1-18.

Hebrews 10:1-18 (King James Version)




Hebrews 10

1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.



2For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.



3But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.



4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.



5Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:



6In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.



7Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.



8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;



9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.



10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.



11And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:



12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;



13From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.



14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.



15Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,



16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;



17And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.



18Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.








Luke 20:9-18


Luke 20:9-18 (King James Version)




9Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.



10And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.



11And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.



12And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.



13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.



14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.



15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?



16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.



17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?



18Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

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