Friday, January 21, 2011

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Daily Readings And Prayers For Friday, 21 January

From armenianchurch-ed.net, biblegateway.com and biblicalproportions.com:

Daily Readings and Prayers:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:


Daily Prayer:

1st Prayer: January 21,2011


Though a sinner deserving of punishment, 
accept me, 
together with those who fight with fire and sword, 
covered in blood, and together with the holy ascetics, 
hermit fathers, and your other followers, Son of God, 
all who with invincible bravery and 
undistracted vigilance, have courageously struggled 
against the baseness of the body 
and fended off the bodiless Satan. 
In the perpetual battlefield of our earthly life 
without being worn down 
upon the waves of this expansive worldly sea, 
despite the heaviness of their bodily ark, 
they sent their souls soaring in lightness, 
reaching the safe haven of eternal life. 
And like those who love the celestial realm, 
truly and boldly, without reservations, 
they have crowned themselves with 
the tiara of victory, adorned with brilliant gems.
By grace of their worthy prayers and 
dedicated supplications, 
accept me too.

 
 
Scriptural Readings:
 
2 Timothy 2:3-14.
 
2 Timothy 2:3-14 (King James Version)




3Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.



4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.



5And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.



6The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.



7Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.



8Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:



9Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.



10Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.



11It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:



12If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:



13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.



14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.






 
John 5:31-47.


John 5:31-47 (King James Version)




31If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.



32There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.



33Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.



34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.



35He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.



36But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.



37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.



38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.



39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.



40And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.



41I receive not honour from men.



42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.



43I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.



44How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?



45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.



46For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me.



47But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?







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