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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord According To The Flesh, St. Basil the Great
Scriptural Readings:
Saturday of the 30th Week after Pentecost
Ephesians 5:1-8
Ephesians 5:1-8 (King James Version)
Ephesians 5
1Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
7Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Luke 14:1-11
Luke 14:1-11 (King James Version)
Luke 14
1And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
2And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
3And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
4And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
5And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
6And they could not answer him again to these things.
7And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them.
8When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
9And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
11For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
The Synaxarion:
This month has thirty-one days with ten hours of day fourteen hours of night.
January 1
The Circumcision according to the Flesh of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ
Memory of our Father among the Saints, Basil the Great, Archbishop of Caesarea of Cappadocia (ca. 330-379)
The Mosaic Law prescribed that when a woman brought a male child into the world, he had to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. Our Lord submitted to the circumcision prescribed by the Law on this day, which is the eighth day after His birth, and received, according to the announcement of the angel, the name which is above all names, "Jesus" or Savior. In celebrating the name day of the Lord today, we begin the new year at the same time under the sign of the Incarnation.
Saint Basil the Great belonged, through his father also named Basil, to the province of Pontus, and through his Emmelia, to the province of Pontus, and through his mother Emmelia, to Cappadocia. He was born in Caesarea in Cappadocia around 329-330. He studied in Caesarea, then in Constantinople under the famous rhetor Libanius, and finally in Athens, where he became a close friend of Saint Gregory of Nazianzus. Shortly after his return to Caesarea which occurred about 356, he retired in solitude to the outskirts of Neocaesarea, where his mother and his sister Macrina already led the monastic life. It is at that time he composed his ascetical writings. He was ordained a priest by Eusebius, Archbishop of Caesarea, and at the death of the latter was elected in 370 to succeed him and rule the Church of Christ. He governed it for eight years, during which time he proved himself a witness of the truth in the face of heresy and full of courage before the threats of the Arian Emperor Valens. He died on January 1, in the year 379. The wisdom and the learning which fill his works, his Philokalia (extracts from the works of Origen), his Treatise on the Holy Spirit, his theological work against the Arian Eunomius, his ascetical writings, his monastic rules, his commentaries on Sacred Scripture, the panegyrics which he made of many saints, his correspondence, and finally the splendor and the force of his words, have won for him rightly the epitaphs of "Revealer of Heaven," and of the "Great."
Third Class Feast. Liturgy of Saint Basil the Great, whatever be the day. Antiphons. Isodikon of the Circumcision. Troparia: of the Circumcision, of Saint Basil the Great, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Circumcision. Epistle of Saint Basil and Gospel of the Circumcision. Kinonikon of the Sunday. After Communion, Troparion of the Circumcision. Dismissal proper to the feast: "...who on the eighth day, has deigned to be circumcised for our salvation..."
In occurrence with a Saturday, the same order is followed. The Epistle and Gospel of Saturday before Theophany should be read on Monday, January 3.
In occurrence with a Sunday: Antiphons. In the Isodikon: ordinary verse, response of the feast. Troparia: of the Resurrection, of the Circumcision, of Saint Basil the Great, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Circumcision. Epistle of Saint Basil the Great, Gospel of the Circumcision (Epistle and Gospel of the Sunday before Theophany can be read the next day, on Monday). Kinonikon of the Sunday. After Communion, Troparion of the Circumcision.
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