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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Saturday, January 15, 2011
Readings for today:
St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26; 6:1-2
Luke 12:32-40
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Paul of Thebes
John the Cave Dweller
Pansophios the Martyr of Alexandria
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Galatians 5:22-26; 6:1-2
Brethren, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no
law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh
with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also
walk by the Spirit. Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one
another, no envy of one another. Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any
trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of
gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's
burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
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Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 12:32-40
The Lord said, "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms;
provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in
the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth
destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let
your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are
waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that
they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are
those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say
to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will
come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the
third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But know this,
that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming,
he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must
be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."
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Paul of Thebes
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Paul, first among hermits, was born about 227 in the Thebaid of
Egypt. In 250 he fled into the wilderness because of the persecution
raging at that time under Decius. Having lived a solitary life in a
certain cave for ninety-one years, he reposed in 341, at the age of 114,
and was buried by Anthony the Great, who had been directed thither by
God several days before the Saint's repose.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
With the rivers of your tears, you have made the barren desert
fertile. Through sighs of sorrow from deep within you, your labors have
borne fruit a hundred-fold. By your miracles you have become a light,
shining upon the world. O Paul, our Holy Father, pray to Christ our God,
to save our souls.
Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
O ye faithful, let us all laud the divine Paul, the bright luminary
that shone at the virtues' lofty height; and let us joyously cry
aloud: O Christ, Thou art the rejoicing of all the Saints.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
John the Cave Dweller
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint John, who was from Constantinople, was the son of illustrious
parents -- Eutropius the Senator and Theodora. At twelve years of age he
departed secretly from his home and went to the Monastery of the
Unsleeping (see Dec. 29). Aflame with longing for his parents, he returned
after six years to his father's home in the guise of a pauper and
beggar. Living in a small hut at the gates of his parents' house
(wherefrom he is called "hut-dweller"), he remained unknown therein for many
years, and suffered mockery at the hands of those who had been his own
servants. Foreknowing his death, he revealed himself to his parents, and
within a few moments reposed, about the year 450.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
Since thou didst desire a poverty like unto Christ's, O wise Father
John, thou didst forsake thy parents' wealth; and while holding in thy
hands the most holy Gospel, O righteous one, thou didst follow after
Christ God while ceaselessly praying to Him for us all.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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