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Daily Readings
Saints/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Fast of the Nativity
Scriptural Readings:
Tuesday of the 28th Week after Pentecost
Tuesday
2 Timothy 3:16-4:4
II Timothy 3:16-4:416All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
4In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you: 2proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching. 3For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
Luke 19:45-48
Luke 19:45-4845Then he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there; 46and he said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a den of robbers.” 47Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him; 48but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.
The Synaxarion:
December 7
Memory of our Father among the Saints, Abrose, Bishop of Milan (333 or 340-397)
Saint Ambrose was born in 333 or 340, in a noble Christian family. His father was the Prefect of the Pretorium of the Gauls, in Treves. He received a solid education in Rome and was named consular governor of Emilia and Liguria by the pious Emperors Constantius and Constans, the sons of Constantine the Great. A simple catechumen, he had not yet received baptism when he was elected Bishop of Milan in 374 by the unanimous consent of the people, by choice of the bishops of Italy, and by the wish of Emperor Valentinian I. He then received holy baptism and passed successively through all the degrees of the ecclesiastical hierarchy up to the episcopate. He governed his Church wisely, fought the heresies of Arius, Sabellius, and Eunomius, and wrote numerous treatises in defense of the Orthodox faith. In 390, when Emperor Theodosius came to Milan after the massacre of Thessalonica, the Saint forbid him to enter the church, recalling to him the cruelties for which he was culpable. He died in 397.
Fifth Class Feast.
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