Byzantine Catholic Orthodox Daily Readings For Sunday, 16 January

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Daily Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Veneration of the Precious Chain of the Holy and Renowned Apostle Peter


Scriptural Readings:

Thirty-Second Sunday After Pentecost: Zacchaeus Sunday




(Eleventh Sunday before Pascha / Easter)

1 Timothy 4:9-15 (See Note 1 below)

1 Timothy 4:9-15 (King James Version)




9This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.



10For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.



11These things command and teach.



12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.



13Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.



14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.



15Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.



Luke 19:1-10

Luke 19:1-10 (King James Version)




Luke 19

1And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.



2And, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, which was the chief among the publicans, and he was rich.



3And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.



4And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.



5And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zacchaeus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.



6And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.



7And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.



8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.



9And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.



10For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.



The Synaxarion:

January 16




Veneration of the Precious Chain of the Holy and Renowned Apostle Peter.



According to the tradition of the Eastern Church, today we celebrate the veneration of the chain by which the leader of the Apostles was bound when he was thrown into prison by the Tetrarch Herod for Jesus Christ's name, as related in Acts 12:6. This chain was transferred to Constantinople in 437 by Empress Eudocia, the wife of Theodosius the Younger, and placed in the chapel of the Holy Apostle Peter, which is found within the Great Church.



In Rome, a small church of the Holy Apostles was built and ornamented by Pope Saint Sixtus III (432-440) on Esquiline Hill, at the expense of Eudoxia the Younger, the wife of Valentinian III, around the beginning of the Fifth century. For a long time the chains which bound the Apostle Saint Peter in the times of Nero were in this church. About the sixth century this church was called as now, the Church of the Chains of the Holy and Renowned Apostle Peter (Saint Peter in Chains).



Fourth Class Feast. Typika and Beatitudes, or the Antiphons. Troparia: of Saint Peter, and of the Church Patron. Kondakion of the Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. Epistle and Gospel from the Menologion. Kinonikon of the Apostles.