Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Greek Orthodox Church Daily Readings For Monday, 28 March

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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, March 28, 2011



Strict Fast



Readings for today:



Isaiah 14:24-32

Genesis 8:21-9:7

Proverbs 11:19-12:6



Feasts and Saints celebrated today:



Hilarion the New

Herodion the Apostle of the 70

Stephen the Wonderworker





Old Testament Reading



The reading is from Isaiah 14:24-32



The LORD of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be,

and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, that I will break the

Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains trample him under foot; and his

yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder."

This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth; and

this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. For the

LORD of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is

stretched out, and who will turn it back? In the year that King Ahaz died

came this oracle: "Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod

which smote you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth

an adder, and its fruit will be a flying serpent. And the

first-born of the poor will feed, and the needy lie down in safety; but I

will kill your root with famine, and your remnant I will slay. Wail,

O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For

smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks."

What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The LORD has

founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."



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Old Testament Reading



The reading is from Genesis 8:21-9:7



And when the LORD smelled the pleasing odor, the LORD said in his

heart, "I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the

imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I ever again

destroy every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains,

seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night,

shall not cease."



And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and

multiply, and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall

be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air,

upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea;

into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives

shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you

everything. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

For your lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning; of every beast

I will require it and of man; of every man's brother I will require

the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his

blood be shed; for God made man in his own image. And you, be fruitful

and multiply, bring forth abundantly on the earth and multiply in

it."



(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America



Old Testament Reading



The reading is from Proverbs 11:19-12:6



He who is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues

evil will die. Men of perverse mind are an abomination to the LORD,

but those of blameless ways are his delight. Be assured, an evil man

will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will be delivered.

Like a gold ring in a swine's snout is a beautiful woman without

discretion. The desire of the righteous ends only in good; the expectation

of the wicked in wrath. One man gives freely, yet grows all the

richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. A

liberal man will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.

The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on

the head of him who sells it. He who diligently seeks good seeks

favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it. He who trusts in his

riches will wither, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

He who troubles his household will inherit wind, and the fool will

be servant to the wise. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of

life, but lawlessness takes away lives. If the righteous is requited

on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner! Whoever loves

discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man

obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of evil devices he condemns. A

man is not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous

will never be moved. A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she

who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of

the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are treacherous.

The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the

upright delivers men.



(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America





Hilarion the New



Reading from the Synaxarion:



Saint Hilarion took up the monastic life from his youth and lived in

seclusion. Later, as Abbot of the Monastery of Pelecete in Asia Minor

(believed to be in Bithynia, not far from Triglia), he suffered much from

the Iconoclasts, and reposed in the year 754.



Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA



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