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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Friday, February 18, 2011
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Readings for today:
St. John's First Universal Letter 2:7-17
Mark 14:3-9
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Friday of Prodigal Son
Leo the Great, Pope of Rome
Agapetus the Confessor, Bishop of Sinai
Flavian the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. John's First Universal Letter 2:7-17
Brethren, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which
you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you
have heard. Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in
him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true
light is already shining. He who says he is in the light and hates his
brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the
light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who hates his
brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know
where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. I am
writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his
sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from
the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have
overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the
Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the
beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word
of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not
love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the
world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life,
is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes
away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for
ever.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Mark 14:3-9
At that time, while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the
leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of
ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it
over his head. But there were some who said to themselves
indignantly, "Why was the ointment thus wasted? For this ointment might have
been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor."
And they reproached her. But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do
you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you
always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to
them; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could;
she has anointed my body beforehand for burying. And truly, I say to
you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has
done will be told in memory of her."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Leo the Great, Pope of Rome
Reading from the Synaxarion:
According to some, this Saint was born in Rome, but according to others in
Tyrrenia (Tuscany), and was consecrated to the archiepiscopal throne of
Rome in 440. In 448, when Saint Flavian, Archbishop of
Constantinople, summoned Eutyches, an archimandrite in Constantinople, to give
account for his teaching that there was only one nature in Christ after
the Incarnation, Eutyches appealed to Saint Leo in Rome. After Saint
Leo had carefully examined Eutyches's teachings, he wrote an epistle
to Saint Flavian, setting forth the Orthodox teaching of the person
of Christ, and His two natures, and also counseling Flavian that,
should Eutyches sincerely repent of his error, he should be received
back with all good will. At the Council held in Ephesus in 449, which
was presided over by Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria (and which
Saint Leo, in a letter to the holy Empress Pulcheria in 451, was the
first to call "The Robber Council"), Dioscorus, having military might
behind him, did not allow Saint Leo's epistle to Flavian to be read,
although repeatedly asked to do so; even before the Robber Council was
held, Dioscorus had uncanonically received the unrepentant Eutyches
back into communion. Because Saint Leo had many cares in Rome owing
to the wars of Attila the Hun and other barbarians, in 451 he sent
four delegates to the Fourth Ecumenical Council, where 630 Fathers
gathered in Chalcedon during the reign of Marcian, to condemn the
teachings of Eutyches and those who supported him. Saint Leo's epistle to
Flavian was read at the Fourth Council, and was confirmed by the Holy
Fathers as the Orthodox teaching on the incarnate person of our Lord; it
is also called the "Tome of Leo." The Saint wrote many works in
Latin; he reposed in 461. See also Saint Anatolius, July 3.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of
faith, an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause,
thou hast achieved the heights by humility, riches by poverty. O
Father and Hierarch Leo, intercede with Christ God that our souls be
saved.
Kontakion in the Third Tone
Seated on the priestly throne, O great and glorious Leo, with the Holy
Trinity's inspired and God-given doctrines thou didst stop the gaping
mouths of spiritual lions and didst shine upon thy flock the light of
God-knowledge, and art glorified now as a divine initiate of the sublime grace
of God.
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 Friday, February 18, 2011
Fast Free
Readings for today:
St. John's First Universal Letter 2:7-17
Mark 14:3-9
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Friday of Prodigal Son
Leo the Great, Pope of Rome
Agapetus the Confessor, Bishop of Sinai
Flavian the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. John's First Universal Letter 2:7-17
Brethren, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which
you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you
have heard. Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in
him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true
light is already shining. He who says he is in the light and hates his
brother is in the darkness still. He who loves his brother abides in the
light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling. But he who hates his
brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know
where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. I am
writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven for his
sake. I am writing to you, fathers, because you know him who is from
the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have
overcome the evil one. I write to you, children, because you know the
Father. I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the
beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word
of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one. Do not
love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the
world, love for the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life,
is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passes
away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides for
ever.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Gospel Reading
The reading is from Mark 14:3-9
At that time, while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the
leper, as he sat at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of
ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it
over his head. But there were some who said to themselves
indignantly, "Why was the ointment thus wasted? For this ointment might have
been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor."
And they reproached her. But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do
you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you
always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to
them; but you will not always have me. She has done what she could;
she has anointed my body beforehand for burying. And truly, I say to
you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has
done will be told in memory of her."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Leo the Great, Pope of Rome
Reading from the Synaxarion:
According to some, this Saint was born in Rome, but according to others in
Tyrrenia (Tuscany), and was consecrated to the archiepiscopal throne of
Rome in 440. In 448, when Saint Flavian, Archbishop of
Constantinople, summoned Eutyches, an archimandrite in Constantinople, to give
account for his teaching that there was only one nature in Christ after
the Incarnation, Eutyches appealed to Saint Leo in Rome. After Saint
Leo had carefully examined Eutyches's teachings, he wrote an epistle
to Saint Flavian, setting forth the Orthodox teaching of the person
of Christ, and His two natures, and also counseling Flavian that,
should Eutyches sincerely repent of his error, he should be received
back with all good will. At the Council held in Ephesus in 449, which
was presided over by Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria (and which
Saint Leo, in a letter to the holy Empress Pulcheria in 451, was the
first to call "The Robber Council"), Dioscorus, having military might
behind him, did not allow Saint Leo's epistle to Flavian to be read,
although repeatedly asked to do so; even before the Robber Council was
held, Dioscorus had uncanonically received the unrepentant Eutyches
back into communion. Because Saint Leo had many cares in Rome owing
to the wars of Attila the Hun and other barbarians, in 451 he sent
four delegates to the Fourth Ecumenical Council, where 630 Fathers
gathered in Chalcedon during the reign of Marcian, to condemn the
teachings of Eutyches and those who supported him. Saint Leo's epistle to
Flavian was read at the Fourth Council, and was confirmed by the Holy
Fathers as the Orthodox teaching on the incarnate person of our Lord; it
is also called the "Tome of Leo." The Saint wrote many works in
Latin; he reposed in 461. See also Saint Anatolius, July 3.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
The truth of things hath revealed thee to thy flock as a rule of
faith, an icon of meekness, and a teacher of temperance; for this cause,
thou hast achieved the heights by humility, riches by poverty. O
Father and Hierarch Leo, intercede with Christ God that our souls be
saved.
Kontakion in the Third Tone
Seated on the priestly throne, O great and glorious Leo, with the Holy
Trinity's inspired and God-given doctrines thou didst stop the gaping
mouths of spiritual lions and didst shine upon thy flock the light of
God-knowledge, and art glorified now as a divine initiate of the sublime grace
of God.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery
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