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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Sunday, February 13, 2011
Readings for today:
Luke 24:13-35
St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 3:10-15
Luke 18:10-14
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today
Martinianos the Righteous
Aquilla & Priscilla the Apostles
Eulogios, Patriarch of Alexandria
Symeon the Myrrhbearer of Serbia
Orthros Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 24:13-35
At that time, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus,
about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all
these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing
together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were
kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this
conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they
stood still looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,
"Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things
that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What
things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a
prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how
our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to
death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem
Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this
happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the
tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came
back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that
he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and
found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he
said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should
suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses
and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures
the things concerning himself.
So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He
appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with
us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he
went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the
bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes
were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their
sight. They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while
he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?"
And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they
found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who
said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they
told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in
the breaking of the bread.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 3:10-15
TIMOTHY, my son, you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in
life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my
persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at lconion, and at
Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued
me. Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will
be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to
worse, deceivers and deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have
learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and
how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings
which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ
Jesus.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 18:10-14
The Lord said this parable, "Two men went up into the temple to pray,
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other
men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax
collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.' But the
tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to
heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than
the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he
who humbles himself will be exalted."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today
Reading from the Synaxarion:
The Pharisees were an ancient and outstanding sect among the Jews
known for their diligent observance of the outward matters of the Law.
Although, according to the word of our Lord, they "did all their works to
be seen of men" (Matt. 23:5), and were hypocrites (ibid. 23: 13, 14,
15, etc.), because of the apparent holiness of their lives they were
thought by all to be righteous, and separate from others, which is what
the name Pharisee means. On the other hand, Publicans, collectors of
the royal taxes, committed many injustices and extortions for filthy
lucre's sake, and all held them to be sinners and unjust. It was
therefore according to common opinion that the Lord Jesus in His parable
signified a virtuous person by a Pharisee, and a sinner by a Publican, to
teach His disciples the harm of pride and the profit of
humble-mindedness.
Since the chief weapon for virtue is humility, and the greatest
hindrance to it is pride, the divine Fathers have set these three weeks
before the Forty-day Fast as a preparation for the spiritual struggles
of virtue. This present week they have called Harbinger, since it
declares that the Fast is approaching; and they set humility as the
foundation for all our spiritual labors by appointing that the parable of
the Publican and the Pharisee be read today, even before the Fast
begins, to teach, through the vaunting of the Pharisee, that the foul
smoke of self-esteem and the stench of boasting drives away the grace
of the Spirit, strips man of all his virtue, and casts him into the
pits of Hades; and, through the repentance and contrite prayer of the
Publican, that humility confers upon the sinner forgiveness of all his
wicked deeds and raises him up to the greatest heights.
All foods are allowed the week that follows this Sunday.
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal of the First Tone
Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the
Spirit, and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and
let us sing His praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to
ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up
those who had died, * by His glorious Resurrection.
Resurrectional Kontakion in the Plagal of the First Tone
You descended to Hades, my Savior, and shattered its gates, as the
Almighty. As Creator, You raised the dead with yourself, and smashed the
sting of death, O Christ. You freed Adam from the curse, O Lover of
humanity. Therefore we all cry out to You, Save us, O Lord.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
Let us flee from the boasting of the Pharisee and learn through our
own sighs of sorrow the humility of the Publican. Let us cry out to
the Savior, "Have mercy on us, for through You alone are we
reconciled."
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Narthex Press
Martinianos the Righteous
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Martinian, who was from Caesarea of Palestine, flourished about
the beginning of the fifth century. He struggled in the wilderness
from his youth. After he had passed twenty-five years in asceticism,
the devil brought a temptation upon him through a harlot, who when
she heard the Saint praised for his virtue, determined to try his
virtue, or rather, to undo it. Coming to his cell by night as it rained,
and saying she had lost her way, she begged with pitiful cries to be
admitted in for the night, lest she fall prey to wild beasts. Moved with
compassion, and not wishing to be guilty of her death should anything befall
her, he allowed her to enter. When she began to seduce him, and the
fire of desire began to burn in his heart, he kindled a fire and
stepped into it, burning his body, but saving his soul from the fire of
Gehenna. And she, brought to her senses by this, repented, and, following
his counsel, went to Bethlehem to a certain virgin named Paula, with
whom she lived in fasting and prayer; before her death, she was deemed
worthy of the gift of wonder-working. Saint Martinian, when he
recovered from the burning, resolved to go to some more solitary place, and
took a ship to a certain island, where he struggled in solitude for a
number of years. Then a young maiden who had suffered a shipwreck came
ashore on his island. Not wishing to fall into temptation again, he
departed, and passed his remaining time as a wanderer, coming to the end of
his life in Athens.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Thou didst quench the flame of temptation with the streams of thy
tears, O blessed Martinian; and having checked the waves of the sea and
the attacks of wild beasts, thou didst cry out: Most glorious art
Thou, O Almighty One, Who hast saved me from fire and tempest.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
As is meet, let us praise with hymns the ever-venerable Martinian as
a tried ascetic that struggled for piety, as an honorable athlete
by deliberate choice, and a resolute citizen and inhabitant of the
desert; for he hath trodden upon the serpent.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Aquilla & Priscilla the Apostles
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
O Holy Apostles, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant
our souls forgiveness of sins.
Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press
Symeon the Myrrhbearer of Serbia
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Symeon (in the world, the ruler Stephen Nemanja), after capably
governing Serbia in piety, wisdom, and justice for many years during the
second half of the twelfth century, renounced all rule and earthly glory
to become a monk, to struggle in fasting and prayer. Thereafter he
went to the Holy Mountain Athos where, together with his son Saint
Sabbas (see Jan. 14), he founded the Monastery of Hilandar. After his
death, a fragrant and healing myrrh came forth from his holy relics.
When Stephen Nemanja put on the monastic habit with the name of
Symeon, his wife Anna followed his example, receiving the monastic name
of Anastasia; she is commemorated as a Saint on June 21.
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Illumined by divine grace, even after death thou dost make manifest the
radiance of thy life; for thou pourest forth fragrant myrrh for them that
have recourse to the shrine of the relics. Thou didst also guide thy
people to the light of the knowledge of God. O our Father Symeon,
entreat Christ God that we be granted great mercy.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Second Tone
Living the angelic life on this earth, thou didst abandon the world and
worldly dominion and didst follow Christ by fasting, O Symeon. In an
apostolic manner, thou didst guide unto Christ them that loved thee and
didst cry: Love ye the Lord even as He hath loved you.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Sunday, February 13, 2011
Readings for today:
Luke 24:13-35
St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 3:10-15
Luke 18:10-14
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today
Martinianos the Righteous
Aquilla & Priscilla the Apostles
Eulogios, Patriarch of Alexandria
Symeon the Myrrhbearer of Serbia
Orthros Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 24:13-35
At that time, two of them were going to a village named Emmaus,
about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all
these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing
together, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were
kept from recognizing him. And he said to them, "What is this
conversation which you are holding with each other as you walk?" And they
stood still looking sad. Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered him,
"Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know the things
that have happened there in these days?" And he said to them, "What
things?" And they said to him, "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, who was a
prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, and how
our chief priests and rulers delivered him up to be condemned to
death, and crucified him. But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem
Israel. Yes, and besides all this, it is now the third day since this
happened. Moreover, some women of our company amazed us. They were at the
tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; and they came
back saying that they had even seen a vision of angels, who said that
he was alive. Some of those who were with us went to the tomb, and
found it just as the women had said; but him they did not see." And he
said to them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should
suffer these things and enter into his glory?" And beginning with Moses
and all the prophets, he interpreted to them in all the scriptures
the things concerning himself.
So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He
appeared to be going further, but they constrained him, saying, "Stay with
us, for it is toward evening and the day is now far spent." So he
went in to stay with them. When he was at table with them, he took the
bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes
were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their
sight. They said to each other, "Did not our hearts burn within us while
he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?"
And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they
found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them, who
said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon!" Then they
told what had happened on the road, and how he was known to them in
the breaking of the bread.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's Second Letter to Timothy 3:10-15
TIMOTHY, my son, you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in
life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, my
persecutions, my sufferings, what befell me at Antioch, at lconion, and at
Lystra, what persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued
me. Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will
be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go on from bad to
worse, deceivers and deceived. But as for you, continue in what you have
learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and
how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings
which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ
Jesus.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Luke 18:10-14
The Lord said this parable, "Two men went up into the temple to pray,
one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and
prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other
men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax
collector. I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get.' But the
tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to
heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!'
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than
the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he
who humbles himself will be exalted."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee: Triodion Begins Today
Reading from the Synaxarion:
The Pharisees were an ancient and outstanding sect among the Jews
known for their diligent observance of the outward matters of the Law.
Although, according to the word of our Lord, they "did all their works to
be seen of men" (Matt. 23:5), and were hypocrites (ibid. 23: 13, 14,
15, etc.), because of the apparent holiness of their lives they were
thought by all to be righteous, and separate from others, which is what
the name Pharisee means. On the other hand, Publicans, collectors of
the royal taxes, committed many injustices and extortions for filthy
lucre's sake, and all held them to be sinners and unjust. It was
therefore according to common opinion that the Lord Jesus in His parable
signified a virtuous person by a Pharisee, and a sinner by a Publican, to
teach His disciples the harm of pride and the profit of
humble-mindedness.
Since the chief weapon for virtue is humility, and the greatest
hindrance to it is pride, the divine Fathers have set these three weeks
before the Forty-day Fast as a preparation for the spiritual struggles
of virtue. This present week they have called Harbinger, since it
declares that the Fast is approaching; and they set humility as the
foundation for all our spiritual labors by appointing that the parable of
the Publican and the Pharisee be read today, even before the Fast
begins, to teach, through the vaunting of the Pharisee, that the foul
smoke of self-esteem and the stench of boasting drives away the grace
of the Spirit, strips man of all his virtue, and casts him into the
pits of Hades; and, through the repentance and contrite prayer of the
Publican, that humility confers upon the sinner forgiveness of all his
wicked deeds and raises him up to the greatest heights.
All foods are allowed the week that follows this Sunday.
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Plagal of the First Tone
Let us worship the Word who is unoriginate * with the Father and the
Spirit, and from a Virgin was born * for our salvation, O believers, and
let us sing His praise. * For in His goodness He was pleased * to
ascend the Cross in the flesh, and to undergo death, * and to raise up
those who had died, * by His glorious Resurrection.
Resurrectional Kontakion in the Plagal of the First Tone
You descended to Hades, my Savior, and shattered its gates, as the
Almighty. As Creator, You raised the dead with yourself, and smashed the
sting of death, O Christ. You freed Adam from the curse, O Lover of
humanity. Therefore we all cry out to You, Save us, O Lord.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Fourth Tone
Let us flee from the boasting of the Pharisee and learn through our
own sighs of sorrow the humility of the Publican. Let us cry out to
the Savior, "Have mercy on us, for through You alone are we
reconciled."
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of St. Gregory Palamas Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Narthex Press
Martinianos the Righteous
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Martinian, who was from Caesarea of Palestine, flourished about
the beginning of the fifth century. He struggled in the wilderness
from his youth. After he had passed twenty-five years in asceticism,
the devil brought a temptation upon him through a harlot, who when
she heard the Saint praised for his virtue, determined to try his
virtue, or rather, to undo it. Coming to his cell by night as it rained,
and saying she had lost her way, she begged with pitiful cries to be
admitted in for the night, lest she fall prey to wild beasts. Moved with
compassion, and not wishing to be guilty of her death should anything befall
her, he allowed her to enter. When she began to seduce him, and the
fire of desire began to burn in his heart, he kindled a fire and
stepped into it, burning his body, but saving his soul from the fire of
Gehenna. And she, brought to her senses by this, repented, and, following
his counsel, went to Bethlehem to a certain virgin named Paula, with
whom she lived in fasting and prayer; before her death, she was deemed
worthy of the gift of wonder-working. Saint Martinian, when he
recovered from the burning, resolved to go to some more solitary place, and
took a ship to a certain island, where he struggled in solitude for a
number of years. Then a young maiden who had suffered a shipwreck came
ashore on his island. Not wishing to fall into temptation again, he
departed, and passed his remaining time as a wanderer, coming to the end of
his life in Athens.
Apolytikion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Thou didst quench the flame of temptation with the streams of thy
tears, O blessed Martinian; and having checked the waves of the sea and
the attacks of wild beasts, thou didst cry out: Most glorious art
Thou, O Almighty One, Who hast saved me from fire and tempest.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
As is meet, let us praise with hymns the ever-venerable Martinian as
a tried ascetic that struggled for piety, as an honorable athlete
by deliberate choice, and a resolute citizen and inhabitant of the
desert; for he hath trodden upon the serpent.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Aquilla & Priscilla the Apostles
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
O Holy Apostles, intercede to our merciful God, that He may grant
our souls forgiveness of sins.
Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press
Symeon the Myrrhbearer of Serbia
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Symeon (in the world, the ruler Stephen Nemanja), after capably
governing Serbia in piety, wisdom, and justice for many years during the
second half of the twelfth century, renounced all rule and earthly glory
to become a monk, to struggle in fasting and prayer. Thereafter he
went to the Holy Mountain Athos where, together with his son Saint
Sabbas (see Jan. 14), he founded the Monastery of Hilandar. After his
death, a fragrant and healing myrrh came forth from his holy relics.
When Stephen Nemanja put on the monastic habit with the name of
Symeon, his wife Anna followed his example, receiving the monastic name
of Anastasia; she is commemorated as a Saint on June 21.
Apolytikion in the Third Tone
Illumined by divine grace, even after death thou dost make manifest the
radiance of thy life; for thou pourest forth fragrant myrrh for them that
have recourse to the shrine of the relics. Thou didst also guide thy
people to the light of the knowledge of God. O our Father Symeon,
entreat Christ God that we be granted great mercy.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Second Tone
Living the angelic life on this earth, thou didst abandon the world and
worldly dominion and didst follow Christ by fasting, O Symeon. In an
apostolic manner, thou didst guide unto Christ them that loved thee and
didst cry: Love ye the Lord even as He hath loved you.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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