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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Fast of the Nativity
Scriptural Readings:
Saturday of the 28th Week after Pentecost
Ephesians 1:16-23
Ephesians 1:16-2316I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers. 17I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation as you come to know him, 18so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints, 19and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. 20God put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come. 22And he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head over all things for the church, 23which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Luke 12:32-40
Luke 12:32-4032“Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 33Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 35“Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; 36be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. 37Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. 38If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. 39“But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.”
The Synaxarion:
December 11
Memory of our venerable Father Daniel the Stylite (409-493).
Saint Daniel was born in 409 in the small market-town of Maratha, in Upper Euphratensis, near Samosata. He embraced monastic life when he was twelve years old. He then went to Saint Simeon the Stylite and was blessed by him. In 451, he went to Anapla, near Constantinople, and shut himself up in a temple of idols, where he was submitted to multiple assaults by the demons. In 460, he became a stylite on a column; neither cold, nor heat, nor violent winds-nothing-could weaken his courage. Ordained a priest by Patriarch Gennadius (458-471), he won the general esteem and commanded the attention of everyone. Even Emperor Leo came in person to see him to ask for his prayers. He died in peace on Saturday, December 11, 493.
Fifth Class Feast.
Sunday of the Holy Ancestors of our Lord Jesus Christ.
On the Sunday between December 11 and 17, we remember all the Ancestors of Christ according to the flesh.
On this day the Church commemorates the Holy Ancestors of Christ, and at the same time all the holy Patriarchs of the Old Testament who prefigured or foretold Christ: Adam the first Father, Enoch, Melchisedec, Abraham, the friend of God, Isaac, the fruit of the Promise, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs. Then those who lived under the Law: Moses Aaron, Josue, Samuel, David, and the Prophets: Isaia, Jeremia, Ezechiel, the twelve minor prophets, Elia, Eliseus, Zacharia, and John the Baptist, and finally the Virgin Mary, the intermediary between mankind and her divine Son.
Indeed, the Lord Jesus did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to redeem humanity which bemoaned the weight of evil since Adam, to realize the promise made to Abraham, to change the Law of fear into the Law of Love, to give resurrection and life to mankind. This feast is a preparation for the Nativity of Jesus. It places before us the sentiments of anticipation and hope for His coming among us.
Third Class Feast. Typika and Beatitudes. Isodikon of the Sunday. Troparia: of the Resurrection, of the Ancestors, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Pre-festive Period of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ (December 20). Epistle and Gospel of the Ancestors. Kinonikon of the Sunday.
Epistle of the Twenty-ninth Sunday after Pentecost: Colossians 3:4-11.
Gospel of the Eleventh Sunday after the Exaltation of the Venerable and Life-giving Cross: Luke 14:16-24.
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