Monday, February 28, 2011

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church In America Daily Prayers And Readings For Monday, 28 February

From:  armenianchurch-ed.net, biblegateway.com, armeianchurch.org and biblicalproprotions.com:

Daily Prayers and Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Saints Mark the Bishop, Pionius the Priest, Cyril and Benjamin the Deacons, and Martyrs Abdelmseh, Ormistan and Sayen




Daily Prayer:

1st Prayer: February 28,2011


Your name is proclaimed,

God, who loves mankind,

who provides and cares for us beyond reason.

You are adored in the mystery of your Holy Trinity,

O light whose image cannot be drawn.

By this twice dedicated wood,

you shot arrows of sound,

through the air, reaching their targets

across long distances, bearing a living spirit,

foiling the secret designs of the archer of darkness,

forcing him into retreat.

As if waging battle from a high fortress,

mighty and indestructible,

you hurl down the strokes of this wooden bell,

like an angel you send to confound the enemy.

With the words of your covenant, Your Majesty,

consecrated with grace by being mixed with your blood,

you have sharpened this horn

like a cross of redemption honed on the whetstone,

to strike down the blustering bully.

By the clamor of this wooden bell,

more tumultuous than a celestial chorus,

the doors of the human will

with its half-hearted and unseemly impulses,

are knocked down

taking with it the legalistic mentality of the

Old Testament heart and its house which is but a shadow

of your new covenant.

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Scriptural Readings:

Zechariah 8:1-3.

Zechariah 8:1-3 (King James Version)




Zechariah 8

1Again the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying,



2Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.



3Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.






Romans 8:28-39.

Romans 8:28-39 (King James Version)




28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.



29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.



30Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.



31What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?



32He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



33Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.



34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.



35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?



36As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.



37Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.



38For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,



39Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.






John 15:17-21

John 15:17-21 (King James Version)




17These things I command you, that ye love one another.



18If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.



19If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.



20Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.



21But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.





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