Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Greek Orthodox Church In America Daily Readings For Monday, 14 February

From The Greek Orthodox Arch-Diocese of America:

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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, February 14, 2011



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Readings for today:



St. Peter's Second Universal Letter 1:20-21; 2:1-9

Mark 13:9-13



Feasts and Saints celebrated today:



Monday of Prodigal Son

Holy Father Auxentius of the Mountain

Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles & Teacher of the Slavs

Nicholas the New Martyr of Corinth





Epistle Reading



The reading is from St. Peter's Second Universal Letter 1:20-21; 2:1-9



Beloved, first of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of

scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever

came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke

from God.



But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be

false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive

heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves

swift destruction. And many will follow their licentiousness, and

because of them the way of truth will be reviled. And in their greed

they will exploit you with false words; from of old their condemnation

has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.



For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them

into hell and committed them to pits of nether gloom to be kept until

the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved

Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven other persons, when he

brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities

of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and

made them an example to those who were to be ungodly; and if he

rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the licentiousness of the

wicked (for by what that righteous man saw and heard as he lived among

them, he was vexed in his righteous soul day after day with their

lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trial,

and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of

judgment.



(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America



Gospel Reading



The reading is from Mark 13:9-13



The Lord said to his disciples, "Take heed to yourselves; for they

will deliver you up to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues;

and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear

testimony before them. And the gospel must first be preached to all

nations. And when they bring you to trial and deliver you up, do not be

anxious beforehand what you are to say; but say whatever is given you in

that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. And

brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and

children will rise against parents and have them put to death; and you

will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end

will be saved."



(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America





Holy Father Auxentius of the Mountain



Reading from the Synaxarion:



This Saint, who was from the East, lived during the reign of Saint

Theodosius the Younger. In 442 he enlisted in the Fourth Military Company

of the Scholarii, that is, the Imperial Guard. Afterwards, he

became a monk on a certain mountain in Bithynia (which later took his

name), not far from Chalcedon. On becoming the archimandrite of the

monastics gathered there, and proving himself to be most enduring in

asceticism and most Orthodox in his faith, he reposed during the reign of

the Emperor Leo the Great of Thrace, who reigned from 457 to 474.



Apolytikion in the First Tone

Thou didst prove to be a citizen of the desert, an angel in the flesh,

and a wonderworker, O Auxentius, our God-bearing Father. By fasting,

vigil, and prayer thou didst obtain heavenly gifts, and thou healest the

sick and the souls of them that have recourse to thee with faith.

Glory to Him that hath given thee strength. Glory to Him that hath

crowned thee. Glory to Him that worketh healings for all through thee.



Kontakion in the Second Tone

Since thou tookest great delight in abstinence, O godly-minded one, and

since thou didst bridle the desires of the flesh, thou didst ever

increase in faith; and thou didst blossom forth like the tree in the midst

of Paradise, O most sacred Father Auxentius.



Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery

Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery

Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery



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