Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: the Fast of the Nativity
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Week Three, Day Two
The Sixteenth Day
The Sixteenth day
Morning Prayer
In the name of the Father ……
Opening prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, true light of the world, as you enlighten all men and women for their salvation, grant us your grace, we pray, to help us to herald your coming in glory by preparing the ways of justice and of peace. We ask this in your holy Son’s name. Who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever. Amen Our Father….
Psalm 79: 1-13
79:1 O God, the heathen are come into your inheritance; your holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. 79:2 The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat to the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth. 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. 79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. 79:5 How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry forever? shall your jealousy burn like fire? 79:6 Pour out your wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon your name. 79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. 79:8 O remember not against us former iniquities: let your tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low. 79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for your name's sake. 79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of your servants which is shed. 79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of your power preserve thou those that are appointed to die; 79:12 And render to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord. 79:13 So we your people and sheep of your pasture will give thee thanks forever: we will declarethy praise to all generations. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Psalm 80: 1-19
80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. 80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up your strength, and come and save us. 80:3 Turn us again, O God, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 80:4 O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of your people? 80:5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure. 80:6 You make us a strife to our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves. 80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. 80:8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: you have cast out the heathen, and planted it. 80:9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. 80:10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs there of were like the goodly cedars. 80:11 She sent out her boughs to the sea, and her branches to the river. 80:12 Why have you then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? 80:13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. 80:14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; 80:15 And the vineyard which your right hand hath planted, and the branch that you made strong for thyself. 80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance. 80:17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, upon the son of man whom you made strong for thyself. 80:18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon your name. 80:19 Turn us again, O Lord God of hosts, cause your face to shine; and we shall be saved. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Psalm 81: 1-16/17
81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength: make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. 81:2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 81:5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. 81:7 Thou calledest in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me; 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shall thou worship any strange god. 81:10 I am the Lord your God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 81:12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways! 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 81:15 The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves to him: but their time should have endured forever. 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Scripture Readings
1st Reading
Proverbs 28: 12-14
28:12 When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden. He that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy. Happy is the man that fears always: but he that hardens his heart shall fall into mischief. He who receives the prophet the by the name of the prophet, shall receive the prophet’s …
2nd Reading
Jude 1: 20-21
1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. He who receives the apostle the by the name of the apostle, shall receive the apostle’s …
3rd Reading (Chant)
Psalm 108: 1-2
108:1 O god, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. 108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. Halleluiah, stand up and harken to the Holy Gospel, the message of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
4th Reading
The Gospel of St John 15: 1-4
15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away: and every branch that bears fruit, he purges it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life…
Concluding prayer
Lord, our heavenly Father, we pray that your grace may always prevail and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; we ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit. One God, forever and ever. Amen Our Father who art……..
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Day 16
Evening prayer
In the name of the Father …………
Opening Prayer
O Almighty and most merciful God, of your bountiful goodness keep us, we beg you, from all things that may hurt us; that we being ready both in body, soul and spirit, may cheerfully accomplish those things that you would have done; we make this our evening prayer through your most holy name’s sake. Amen. Our Father….O My Lady Mary ….
Psalm 82: 1-end
82:1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods. 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah. 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. 82:7 But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shall inherit all nations. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Psalm 83: 1-18/end
83:1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God. 83:2 For, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones. 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 83:7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 83:8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. 83:9 Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 83:10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 83:13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 83:14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire; 83:15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm. 83:16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O Lord. 83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Psalm 84: 1-end
84:1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 84:2 My soul longs, yea, even faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. 84:3 Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God. 84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will be still praising thee. Selah. 84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. 84:6 Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also fills the pools. 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God. 84:8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed. 84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 84:11 For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 84:12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in thee. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Psalm 85: 1-13
85:1 Lord, you have been favourable to your land: you have brought back the captivity of Jacob. 85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people, you have covered all their sin. Selah. 85:3 You have taken away all your wrath: you have turned thyself from the fierceness of your anger. 85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause your anger toward us to cease. 85:5 Wilt thou be angry with us forever? wilt thou draw out your anger to all generations? 85:6 Wilt thou not revive us again: that your people may rejoice in thee? 85:7 Show us your mercy, O Lord, and grant us your salvation. 85:8 I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. 85:9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 85:11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. 85:12 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. 85:13 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning….
Scripture Readings
The Pentacost
1st Reading
1st Samuel 15: 22-23
15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. He who receives the prophet the by the name of the prophet, shall receive the prophet’s …
2nd Reading
Revelation 5: 9-10
5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 5:10 And have made us to our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. He who receives the Apostle by the name of the Apostle shall receive the Apostle’s reward. Amen
3rd Reading (Chant)
Psalm 128: 1-2
128:1 Blessed is every one that fears the Lord; that walks in his ways. 128:2 For thou shall eat the labour of your hands: happy shall thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Halleluiah, stand up and harken to the Holy Gospel, the message of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
4th Reading
The Gospel of St. Luke 16: 10-13
16;10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. It is easier for heaven and to pass, than one ….
Concluding prayer
O Lord, our heavenly Father, we beseech you mercifully to hear us; and grant us that we, to whom you have given an hearty desire to pray daily, may by your mighty aid be defended and comforted from all dangers, harm and adversities; we make this our evening prayer in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and with the Holy Spirit now and forever. Amen. Our Father… O my Lady Mary…
The Synaxarium:
THE FOURTH MONTH
TAHISAS 18
(December 27)
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,
ONE GOD. AMEN.
On this day is commemorated Abba Salama, the revealer of the light, for he was the light of Ethiopia; and behold the story of his strife is written in the section for the twenty-seventh day of the month Hamle. Salutation to Abba Salama.
And on this day also took place the translation of the body of the great Saint Titus, the Apostle, the disciple of Paul the Apostle. Constantine the Just, the great emperor of emperors, translated the body from ‘Akrates (Crete) to the city of Constantinople. When by the Will of God, Constantine reigned, he took very careful thought for the churches and the works thereof, and he beautified with fine decorations all the churches, which were in his kingdom, and especially those in the city of Constantinople, for, that was the seat of his sovereignty. And he inspected every work, and he wished [the builders] to beautify them with every kind of decoration, and with pearl-stone (mother-of-pearl), and costly stones; and he also made them glorious with spiritual stones and celestial gems. And the bodies of the apostles were gathered together to him, and such of the bodies of the honorable martyrs as he could find. And when he heard that the body of Saint Titus the apostle was in the city of ‘Akrates (Crete) he sent the chief priests, and with them much money, and they took the body of Saint Titus with great honor, and brought it to the city of Constantinople. And he built a beautiful church, and he placed the body in a coffer of very precious stone, and laid it in the church. And God made manifest many exceedingly great signs and miracles through it. And as they were carrying Saint Titus to bring him into the sanctuary, the end of the stone coffer dropped upon the foot of one of its carriers, and crushed it, and the bones thereof. And that man took some of the oil of the lamp which was hanging before the picture of Saint Titus in faith, and he smeared his foot therewith and tied it up, crying out by reason of the pain as he did so; and as he could not walk home to his house, he passed the night by the side of the coffer containing the saint. And on the following day he unbandaged his foot to look at it, and to apply the means of healing to it, and he found that it was sound and well like the other, and there was no pain in it whatsoever, and he found on it only traces of the marks of blood; and all those who saw this miracle marveled exceedingly, and they glorified God. And the man rose up and washed away the blood, and he walked about as usual without any pain, and he glorified God. And the miracles of this holy Apostle Titus were many. Salutation to the translation of the body of Titus the disciple of Paul.
And on this day also died Arkila, and Philemon, the priest and anchorite who became a martyr. Salutation to Arkila, and Philemon.
And on this day also are commemorated Farkayon, and Silikion, and Galinicus, and ‘Eunas, and their companion who were martyred; and the translation of the bodies of ‘Arsis, and Dacia, and Dimon; [‘Arsis, Dacia and Dimon are not mentioned in the Bodleian MS.] and the translation of the body of Thomas the Apostle. And countless signs appeared through his body, and they built a beautiful church for him on the river, and they laid the body of the saint therein.
Glory be to God Who is glorified in His Saints. Amen.
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