Thursday, April 14, 2011

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church In America Daily Prayers And Readings For Thursday, 14 April

From armenianchurch-ed.net, biblegateway.org and biblicalproportions.com:

Daily Prayers and Readings:


Saints/Martys/Feasts/Fasts to be observed/commemmorated/celebrated:  Great Lent


Daily Prayer:

1st Prayer: April 14,2011


Yet again I cry out my soul’s ultimate lament. 
For its loss and destruction came about by my own hand, 
I strayed beyond return and though treated as a son, 
I turned hostile. 
I stumbled from the heights of heaven and only gathered thorns of life. 
Moreover, I cry out, 
for I defiled myself and turned myself into 
an altar to the Destroyer. 
There is also another ache in my heart, 
for they consider me to be something I am not. 
Like an outwardly sparkling cup, that is really dirty, 
or a whitewashed wall, that is filthy, 
or a showoff dressed in vain conceit, 
that is really a light engulfed in gloom, 
a miserable eye blinded not by a speck, but a stick,
or an extinguished torch of glory, 
destructive in all things, in all places, in all ways, 
toward the providence of the Lord, 
toward the manifestations of Godliness, 
toward the images shaped by the creator, 
toward the fearfulness of humility, 
toward the one, whom I saw with my own eyes,
toward this, for which I am more accountable 
than for the entire Gospel. 
Amazement, shock, 
gnawing cares, those infeasible intentions and 
calculations beyond the mind’s ken, 
failed escapes, faulty landings, 
deserved disappointments, fair reprimand, 
appropriate ridicule, just denunciation, 
well-deserved curses – 
such are the accusations and self-inflicted 
torments of my sinful self.

 
Scriptural Readings:
 
Exodus 37:1-14.
 
Exodus 37:1-14 (King James Version)








Exodus 37



1And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:



2And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.



3And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.



4And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.



5And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.



6And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.



7And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;



8One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.



9And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.



10And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:



11And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.



12Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.



13And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.



14Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

 
1 Timothy 3:14-16
 
1 Timothy 3:14-16 (King James Version)










14These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:



15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.



16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory

 
 
 
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April--A Feast for the Spirit
 

Sunday of the Judge







A Feast for the Spirit





April marks one of the most active and consequential months in the Armenian Church calendar.



Across the Eastern Diocese, local parishes are continuing their Lenten programs, in anticipation of Palm Sunday (April 17) and the Holy Week observances of Holy Thursday, Friday, and Saturday (April 21, 22, 23)—dramatizing the great events from the final days of Christ’s earthly ministry.



That drama reaches its climax on Easter Sunday (April 24), when the church rejoices over Christ’s triumph over evil and death, through his glorious resurrection.



A rare conjunction of dates in 2011 places Easter on the date usually designated for Armenian Martyrs Day. Please note that Diocesan parishes will be observing Martyrs Day on the day after Easter—Monday, April 25—at which time requiem services will be held in memory of the martyrs of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.



The month will conclude with the Eastern Diocese’s annual gathering, the 109th Diocesan Assembly, convening this year in Boston, MA. The Holy Trinity Church of Cambridge, MA, is hosting the annual Diocesan Clergy Conference (April 26-28) and the Diocesan Assembly itself (April 28-May1), as well as concurrent organizational gatherings like the Women’s Guild Assembly (April 29-30).



Look for features on all of these events on our website. And please contact your local parish for information on its own activities throughout the month, so you and your family can enrich your lives with the spiritual treasures of the Armenian Church.


 
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