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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Strict Fast
Readings for today:
Isaiah 10:12-20
Genesis 7:6-9
Proverbs 9:12-18
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Nikon the Holy Martyr & his 200 Companion Martyrs
Anatolios & Protoleon the Martyrs converted by the martyrdom of St. George
Luke the New Martyr of Mytilene
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Isaiah 10:12-20
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on
Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and
his haughty pride. For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed
the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a
bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones. My hand has found
like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that
have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was
none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped." Shall the
axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself
against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or
as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! Therefore the Lord,
the LORD of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout
warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning
of fire. The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a
flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will
destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes
away. The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a
child can write them down. In that day the remnant of Israel and the
survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them,
but will lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Genesis 7:6-9
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon
the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives
with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood. Of
clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of
everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went
into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Proverbs 9:12-18
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone
will bear it. A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no
shame. She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high
places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight
on their way, "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him
who is without sense she says, "Stolen water is sweet, and bread
eaten in secret is pleasant." But he does not know that the dead are
there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Nikon the Holy Martyr & his 200 Companion Martyrs
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Nikon was from Neapolis (Naples) in Italy. His father was an
idolater and his mother a Christian. At first he was a soldier, but later
he went to the East, where he was baptized and in time became a
bishop. After some years, he returned to the West and came to Sicily,
where he and many of his disciples were put to death by beheading
because they would not worship the idols.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
O God of our Fathers, ever dealing with us according to Thy
gentleness: take not Thy mercy from us, but by their entreaties guide our
life in peace.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Strict Fast
Readings for today:
Isaiah 10:12-20
Genesis 7:6-9
Proverbs 9:12-18
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Nikon the Holy Martyr & his 200 Companion Martyrs
Anatolios & Protoleon the Martyrs converted by the martyrdom of St. George
Luke the New Martyr of Mytilene
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Isaiah 10:12-20
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on
Jerusalem he will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and
his haughty pride. For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have
done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I have removed
the boundaries of peoples, and have plundered their treasures; like a
bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones. My hand has found
like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that
have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was
none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped." Shall the
axe vaunt itself over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself
against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or
as if a staff should lift him who is not wood! Therefore the Lord,
the LORD of hosts, will send wasting sickness among his stout
warriors, and under his glory a burning will be kindled, like the burning
of fire. The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a
flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
The glory of his forest and of his fruitful land the LORD will
destroy, both soul and body, and it will be as when a sick man wastes
away. The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a
child can write them down. In that day the remnant of Israel and the
survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean upon him that smote them,
but will lean upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Genesis 7:6-9
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came upon
the earth. And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives
with him went into the ark, to escape the waters of the flood. Of
clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of
everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went
into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Proverbs 9:12-18
If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone
will bear it. A foolish woman is noisy; she is wanton and knows no
shame. She sits at the door of her house, she takes a seat on the high
places of the town, calling to those who pass by, who are going straight
on their way, "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" And to him
who is without sense she says, "Stolen water is sweet, and bread
eaten in secret is pleasant." But he does not know that the dead are
there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Nikon the Holy Martyr & his 200 Companion Martyrs
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Nikon was from Neapolis (Naples) in Italy. His father was an
idolater and his mother a Christian. At first he was a soldier, but later
he went to the East, where he was baptized and in time became a
bishop. After some years, he returned to the West and came to Sicily,
where he and many of his disciples were put to death by beheading
because they would not worship the idols.
Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
O God of our Fathers, ever dealing with us according to Thy
gentleness: take not Thy mercy from us, but by their entreaties guide our
life in peace.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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