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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, January 31, 2011
Readings for today:
St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31; 13:1-8
Matthew 10:1, 5-8
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries
Holy Women Martyrs Theodote, Theoktiste and Eudoxia
Our Righteous Father Arsenius of Parus
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31; 13:1-8
Brethren, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And
God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets,
third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers,
administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all
prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts
of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But
earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more
excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be
burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it
does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love
never ends.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Matthew 10:1, 5-8
At that time, Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them
authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease
and every infirmity. These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go
nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go,
saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the
dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying,
give without pay."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries
Reading from the Synaxarion:
These Saints lived during the years of Diocletian. Saint Cyrus was from
Alexandria, and Saint John was from Edessa of Mesopotamia. Because of the
persecution of that time, Cyrus fled to the Gulf of Arabia, where there was a
small community of monks. John, who was a soldier, heard of Cyrus' fame
and came to join him. Henceforth, they passed their life working
every virtue, and healing every illness and disease freely by the grace
of Christ; hence their title of "Unmercenaries." They heard that a
certain woman, named Athanasia, had been apprehended together with her
three daughters, Theodora, Theoctiste, and Eudoxia, and taken to the
tribunal for their confession of the Faith. Fearing lest the tender young
maidens be terrified by the torments and renounce Christ, they went to
strengthen them in their contest in martyrdom; therefore they too were
seized. After Cyrus and John and those sacred women had been greatly
tormented, all were beheaded in the year 292. Their tomb became a renowned
shrine in Egypt, and a place of universal pilgrimage. It was found in
the area of the modern day resort near Alexandria named Abu Kyr.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Since Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy holy Martyrs as an
invincible battlement, by their entreaties scatter the counsels of the
heathen, O Christ our God, and strenghten the faith of Orthodox
Christians, since Thou alone art good and the Friend of man.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, January 31, 2011
Readings for today:
St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31; 13:1-8
Matthew 10:1, 5-8
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries
Holy Women Martyrs Theodote, Theoktiste and Eudoxia
Our Righteous Father Arsenius of Parus
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians 12:27-31; 13:1-8
Brethren, you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And
God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets,
third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers,
administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all
prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts
of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But
earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more
excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be
burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind;
love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love
does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it
does not rejoice at wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love
never ends.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Matthew 10:1, 5-8
At that time, Jesus called to him his twelve disciples and gave them
authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease
and every infirmity. These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go
nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go,
saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, raise the
dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying,
give without pay."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Cyrus & John the Unmercenaries
Reading from the Synaxarion:
These Saints lived during the years of Diocletian. Saint Cyrus was from
Alexandria, and Saint John was from Edessa of Mesopotamia. Because of the
persecution of that time, Cyrus fled to the Gulf of Arabia, where there was a
small community of monks. John, who was a soldier, heard of Cyrus' fame
and came to join him. Henceforth, they passed their life working
every virtue, and healing every illness and disease freely by the grace
of Christ; hence their title of "Unmercenaries." They heard that a
certain woman, named Athanasia, had been apprehended together with her
three daughters, Theodora, Theoctiste, and Eudoxia, and taken to the
tribunal for their confession of the Faith. Fearing lest the tender young
maidens be terrified by the torments and renounce Christ, they went to
strengthen them in their contest in martyrdom; therefore they too were
seized. After Cyrus and John and those sacred women had been greatly
tormented, all were beheaded in the year 292. Their tomb became a renowned
shrine in Egypt, and a place of universal pilgrimage. It was found in
the area of the modern day resort near Alexandria named Abu Kyr.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Since Thou hast given us the miracles of Thy holy Martyrs as an
invincible battlement, by their entreaties scatter the counsels of the
heathen, O Christ our God, and strenghten the faith of Orthodox
Christians, since Thou alone art good and the Friend of man.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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