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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Feast of the Nativity (3rd Day), St. Stephen, Deacon and Proto-Martyr
Scriptural Readings:
Thirty-First Week After Pentecost
Monday
Hebrews 11:17, 27-31
Hebrews 11:17; Hebrews 11:27-31 (King James Version)
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Hebrews 11:17
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17By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
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Hebrews 11:27-31
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27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
28Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
29By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
30By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
31By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.
Mark 9:42-10:1
Mark 9:42-10:1 (King James Version)
42And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
Mark 10
1And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judaea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
The Synaxarion:
December 27
Third Day of the Feast of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Memory of the holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (+37)
Our venerable Father Theodore the Scarred, the Confessor (775-844)
One of the seven deacons chosen to aid the Apostles in the material work of the nascent Christian community, Saint Stephen was stoned to death, as it is reported in the Acts of the Apostles around the year 37. He committed his soul in pardoning his executioners. Buried by some pious men, his holy body was rediscovered in 415 at Kaphargamala, following an apparition made to Lucian the priest, and transferred to Jerusalem into the church built by Empress Eudocia, the wife of Theodosius the Younger. Destroyed by the Persians in 614, the Church of the Protomartyr Stephen was rebuilt in 1898 by the Dominicans. His name signifies, in Greek, a crown: the Troparion makes an allusion to this etymological sense of his name.
As for Saint Theodore the Scarred (775-844), he was the brother of Saint Theophanes, whose feast is on October 11, where his life is given.
Fifth Class Feast.
Antiphons and Isodikon of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Troparia: of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ, of Saint Stephen, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Nativity of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ according to the Flesh. Epistle and Gospel of Saint Stephen. Ordinary Hirmos. Kinonikon of Saint Stephen.
In occurrence with a Saturday, the same order is followed, but the Epistle is of Saint Stephen and the Gospel is from the Saturday after the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.
In occurrence with a Sunday: Typika and Beatitudes. Isodikon of the Sunday. Troparia: of the Resurrection, of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ, of Saint Joseph, of Saint Stephen, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Epistle of Saint Stephen. Gospel of the Sunday after the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Ordinary Hirmos. Kinonikon of the Sunday.
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