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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Feast of the Nativity (4th Day)
Scriptural Readings:
Tuesday of the 30th Week after Pentecost
Hebrews 9:8-10, 15-23
Hebrews 9:8-10; Hebrews 9:15-23 (King James Version)
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Hebrews 9:8-10
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8The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
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Hebrews 9:15-23
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15And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
16For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
18Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
19For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
20Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
21Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
22And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Mark 8:22-26
Mark 8:22-26 (King James Version)
22And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
23And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
24And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
25After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw every man clearly.
26And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.
The Synaxarion:
December 28
Fourth Day of the Feast of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Memory of the Holy Martyrs Burned in Nicomedia under Diocletian (303)
In the nineteenth year of the reign of Diocletian, in the month of March, 303, imperial edicts were posted everywhere ordering the churches to be destroyed, the Scriptures to be burned, and proclaiming those who were in public office forfeited of their duties if they remained in the profession of Christianity. Shortly afterwards, under the instigation of Maximian Galerius and Diocletian, new decrees were promulgated ordering all the heads of the Church imprisoned in whatever country they be, and that they be compelled, by all means, to sacrifice. In Nicomedia, the great church was destroyed, and Anthimos, who then presided over this church, was beheaded because of the witness he rendered to Christ. A crowd of martyrs followed him. A fire, hypocritically ordered by Maximian, broke out in the imperial palace of Nicomedia at that time. On a lying suspicion, the rumor spread that it had been set on fire by the Christians. Also, on an imperial order, they were put to death without distinction; some were slaughtered by the sword, others were burned, and it is told that carried away by a divine and indescribable zeal, some men and women leaped onto the funeral-pyress. The executioners bound a crowd of others on ships and threw them to the bottom of the sea.
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 the Holy Martyrs burned in Nicomedia; and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our, Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Epistle and Gospel of the period. Ordinary Hirmos. Kinonikon of the weekday.
In occurrence with a Saturday, the same order is followed, but the Epistle and Gospel are 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; and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Nativity according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Epistle and 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.
December 29
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