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Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: Cheesfare Week, Memory of our venerable Father Gerasimos of Jordan
Scriptural Readings:
Zechariah 8:7-14
Zechariah 8:7-14 (King James Version)
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
8And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
9Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
10For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
11But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
13And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
14For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Zechariah 8:19-23
Zechariah 8:19-23 (King James Version)
19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
20Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
21And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
22Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
The Synaxarion:
March 4
Memory of our venerable Father Gerasimos of Jordan (+475)
A native of Lycia, this holy father was consecrated to God from his infancy by his Christian parents. He was raised in the exercises of monastic life inside a coenobium. Becoming an adult, at first he withdrew to the most solitary places in his country. He went to Jerusalem around 451. After having venerated the Holy Places, he withdrew to Jordan and lived as an anchorite in the deserts near the Dead Sea. At the time of the Council of Chalcedon, he and the other anchorites in the desert adhered to the Aposchite sect. By Saint Euthymius' exhortations he adhered to the dogma defined by the holy Council. In 455 he founded a laura with a coenobium at its center in the desert of Jordan. He stipulated that beginners remain in the coenobium and that those more advanced live separately in cells, each one spending the first five weekdays in his cell but coming to the church on Saturdays and Sundays to receive Holy Communion and to partake in the common meal in the coenobium. He died on March 5, 475, at the beginning of Emperor Zeno's reign. His laura which had no less than seventy anchorites was destroyed around the Tenth century.
Fifth Class Feast.
Daily Readings:
Saints/Martyrs/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated: Cheesfare Week, Memory of our venerable Father Gerasimos of Jordan
Scriptural Readings:
Zechariah 8:7-14
Zechariah 8:7-14 (King James Version)
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;
8And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
9Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
10For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.
11But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
12For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
13And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.
14For thus saith the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the LORD of hosts, and I repented not:
Zechariah 8:19-23
Zechariah 8:19-23 (King James Version)
19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
20Thus saith the LORD of hosts; It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:
21And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts: I will go also.
22Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.
23Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
The Synaxarion:
March 4
Memory of our venerable Father Gerasimos of Jordan (+475)
A native of Lycia, this holy father was consecrated to God from his infancy by his Christian parents. He was raised in the exercises of monastic life inside a coenobium. Becoming an adult, at first he withdrew to the most solitary places in his country. He went to Jerusalem around 451. After having venerated the Holy Places, he withdrew to Jordan and lived as an anchorite in the deserts near the Dead Sea. At the time of the Council of Chalcedon, he and the other anchorites in the desert adhered to the Aposchite sect. By Saint Euthymius' exhortations he adhered to the dogma defined by the holy Council. In 455 he founded a laura with a coenobium at its center in the desert of Jordan. He stipulated that beginners remain in the coenobium and that those more advanced live separately in cells, each one spending the first five weekdays in his cell but coming to the church on Saturdays and Sundays to receive Holy Communion and to partake in the common meal in the coenobium. He died on March 5, 475, at the beginning of Emperor Zeno's reign. His laura which had no less than seventy anchorites was destroyed around the Tenth century.
Fifth Class Feast.
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