Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Daily Readings For Sunday, 2 January

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Daily Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  the Fast of the Nativity (Hisnag)


Daily Prayer:

1st Prayer: January 02,2011


You stood, with my nature, before a tribunal of

your creatures, and did not speak, giver of speech.

You did not utter a word, creator of tongues.

You did not release your voice, shaker of the world.

You did not make a sound, trumpet of majesty.

You did not answer back with accounts of

your good deeds.

You did not silence them with their wrongs.

You did not deliver your betrayer to death.

You did not struggle when bound.

You did not squirm when whipped.

You did not fight back when spat upon.

You did not resist when beaten.

You did not take affront when mocked.

You did not frown when ridiculed.



They stripped you of your cloak, as from a weakling,

and dressed you like a condemned prisoner.

If my Lord had not been forced twice to drink vinegar and gall, he would not have been able to cleanse me of the accumulated bile of our forefathers.

He tasted heartbreak and did not waver.

They dragged him violently and brought him

back disrespectfully.

They condemned him, humiliated him by flogging

before a motley crowd.

They knelt before him in ridicule

and put a crown of disdain upon his head.

.2nd Prayer: January 02,2011

Jesus, accept with favor

the supplications I make to you,

and turn my gnawing apprehensions into solid faith.

In the time of the great flood that destroyed everything,

those who lived carelessly without fear

upon the steady plains of earth

were destroyed, bereft of your mercy,

while those who trusted in your name,

stood on the rocking deck

of the covered ark of logs

and were saved.

Even so, rescue me with your love of mankind,

though I forever sway this way and that, and

deliver me to the port of your peace, I pray you.



Bearing the fruits of your grace with me

and leaving behind the heavy burden of sin that

weighs me down,

I fall before you, Lord, in the words of your parable,

uniting with you completely, inseparably,

O Lord, blessed in all things.

Now chanting these prayers in antiphon

with the most pure angels

and with the earthly martyrs

who were tested by water and fire

and who upon their departure from this life, pray for us,

leaving their memory as encouragement,

let us say with them, in unison:

So be it.

Amen.

 
 
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