Monday, March 28, 2011

Greek Orthodox Church Daily Readings For Saturday, 26 March

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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Saturday, March 26, 2011



Fast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)



Readings for today:



St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 2:2-10

Luke 10:16-21



Feasts and Saints celebrated today:



Synaxis in honor of the Archangel Gabriel

26 Martyrs in Crimea

Irenaeus the Hieromartyr of Hungary





Epistle Reading



The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 2:2-10



BRETHREN, if the message declared by angels was valid and every

transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, how shall we escape

if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by

the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him, while God

also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by

gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will. For it

was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we

are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that

thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him?

Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou

hast crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in

subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to

him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see

everything in subjection to him. But we see Jesus, who for a little while

was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because

of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might

taste death for every one. For it was fitting that he, for whom and by

whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the

pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.



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Gospel Reading



The reading is from Luke 10:16-21



The Lord said to his disciples, "He who hears you hears me, and he

who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who

sent me." The seventy returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the

demons are subject to us in your name! " And he said to them, "I saw

Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you

authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of

the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in

this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names

are written in heaven. " In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy

Spirit and said, "I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that

you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and

revealed them to babes; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will."



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Synaxis in honor of the Archangel Gabriel



Reading from the Synaxarion:



This festive Synaxis is celebrated to the glory of the Archangel

Gabriel, since he ministered to the marvelous mystery of God's incarnate

dispensation.



Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone

O Commanders of the Heavenly Host, we the unworthy beseech you,

that through your entreaties you will fortify us, guarding us in the

shelter of the wings of your ethereal glory, even as we fervently bow

before you crying: "Deliver us from all danger, as Commanders of the

Powers on high! "



Kontakion in the Fourth Tone

Supreme Commander of God and minister of the Divine glory, guide of men

and leader of the bodiless hosts: Ask for what is to our profit and

for great mercy, since thou art Supreme Commander of the bodiless

hosts.



Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA

Apolytikion courtesy of Narthex Press - Northridge, CA

Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA



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