Sunday, February 6, 2011

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church In America Daily Readings And Prayers For Sunday, 6 February

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

Daily Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Fourth Sunday after the Nativity


Daily Prayers:

1st Prayer: February 06,2011


And if I reach old age,

having been guided by you to my worthy death,

do not abandon me in my frailty.

Do not despise my gray hair.

Do not destroy what is already broken.

Do not bring down the bent.

Do not knock down the humbled.

Do not extinguish the flickering flame with your wind.

Do not shove the unsteady.

Do not leave the shivering without a coat.

Do not permit the afflicted to go without a cure.

Do not leave the dilapidated untended.

Do not let the old image be dishonored.

Do not take the taste away from the sumptuous.

Do not tarnish the splendor of grace.

Do not insult the old.

Do not send waves upon the ship of my soul.

Do not cut the thread of hope.

Do not sever the life line.

Do not take away presence of mind or memory.

Do not destroy what you have shaped.

Do not clip the wings of ascension.

Do not deform the cheerfulness of beauty.

Do not retract the rays of light.

Do not close the windows of the eyes.

Do not block their light.

Do not cut down my speaking image.

 
 
 
Scriptural Readings:
 
Isaiah 5:1-10.
 
Isaiah 5:1-10 (King James Version)




Isaiah 5

1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:



2And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.



3And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.



4What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?



5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:



6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.



7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.



8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!



9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.



10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.






1 Corinthians 6:18-7:11.
 
1 Corinthians 6:18-7:11 (King James Version)




18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.



19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?



20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.



1 Corinthians 7

1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.



2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.



3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.



4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.



5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.



6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.



7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.



8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.



9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.



10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:



11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.






Matthew 19:3-12.


Matthew 19:3-12 (King James Version)




3The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?



4And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,



5And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?



6Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.



7They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?



8He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.



9And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.



10His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.



11But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.



12For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.







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