Sunday, February 6, 2011

Byzantine Catholic Orthodox Daily And Festal Readings For Sunday, 6 February

From byzcath.org, rongolini.com, wapedia.com and biblegateway.com:

Daily and Festal Readings:

Thirty-Second Sunday After Pentecost: Zacchaeus Sunday
(Eleventh Sunday before Pascha / Easter)





Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Fifth Day of the Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ, Memory of our venerable Father Bukolos, Bishop of Smyrna (?),  The holy Martyr Julian, a Physician of Emesa (+under Numerian, 283-284)




Scriptural Readings:

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:
 
February 6




Fifth Day of the Feast of the Encounter of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ



Memory of our venerable Father Bukolos, Bishop of Smyrna (?)



The holy Martyr Julian, a Physician of Emesa (+under Numerian, 283-284)



From his tender youth, Saint Bukolos was consecrated to God to be a receptable of the Holy Spirit. Tried by Saint John the Theologian and having been found worthy, he was elected Bishop of Smyrna. Enlightened by the Holy Spirit, he illumined those who were seated in darkness and by baptism made them sons of light, delivering them from the devil's tyranny. Before his death he established Saint Polycarp as the shepherd and doctor of the faithful in Symrna. Where his body was placed into the earth, God made a plant grow which heals all sickness, up to our times.



A pious young man from Emesa, Saint Julian was versed in medicine. He cared for bodily ills but in reality took better care of souls for he was a doctor of the body as well as the soul. Under Emperor Numerian (283-284), Bishop Silvan was seized by the pagans and condemned to the beasts at the same time as the deacon Luke and the lector Mokios. Amid those who led them to punishment, Saint Julian went to embrace them. Seized, he was beheaded immediately after the three martyrs' execution.



Fifth Class Feast.



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