Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Byzantine Catholic Orthodox Church Daily Readings For Tuesday, 15 March

From:  byzcath.org, rongolini.com andbiblegateway.com:

Daily Readings:


Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Memory of the holy Martyr Agapios and his seven companions (+304)






Scriptural Readings:

Isaiah 5:7-16

Isaiah 5:7-16 (King James Version)




7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.



8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!



9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.



10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.



11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!



12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.



13Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.



14Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.



15And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:



16But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.


Genesis 4:8-15

Genesis 4:8-15 (King James Version)




8And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.



9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?



10And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.



11And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;



12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.



13And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.



14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.



15And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.




Proverbs 5:1-15

Proverbs 5:1-15 (King James Version)




Proverbs 5

1My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:



2That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.



3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:



4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.



5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.



6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.



7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.



8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:



9Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:



10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;



11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,



12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;



13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!



14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.



15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.





The Synaxarion:
 
March 15




Memory of the holy Martyr Agapios and his seven companions (+304)



These holy martyrs lived under Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. Agapios' native land in unknown. Timolaos was from Pontus, and Dionysius was from Tripolis, Phoenicia. Romylos was a subdeacon of the Church of Diospolis. Two others, Paesis and Alexander, were Egyptians. As for the seventh, named Alexander, he was a native of Gaza. Chaining their souls to Christ's love, they spontaneously bound their hands with chains and presented themselves to Urban, the Governor of Palestine, publicly declaring themselves as Christians. After having tried in vain by all sorts of threats and promises to make them give up the Christian faith, the governor ordered that they be beheaded on March 24, 304.



Fifth Class Feast.



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