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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, April 11, 2011
Strict Fast
Readings for today:
Isaiah 48:17-49:4
Genesis 27:1-41
Proverbs 19:16-25
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Antipas, Bishop of Pergamon
Pharmuthios the Anchorite
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Isaiah 48:17-49:4
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the
LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you
should go. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace
would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of
the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand, and your
descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed
from before me."
Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a
shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say,
"The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" They thirsted not when he
led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the
rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out. "There is no peace,"
says the LORD, "for the wicked."
Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar.
The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named
my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his
hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me
away. And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will
be glorified." But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my
strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and
my recompense with my God." And now the LORD says, who formed me
from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that
Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the
LORD, and my God has become my strength.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Genesis 27:1-41
When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he
called Esau his older son, and said to him, "My son"; and he answered,
"Here I am." He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my
death. Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go
out to the field, and hunt game for me, and prepare for me savory
food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may
bless you before I die." Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to
his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and
bring it, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to
your brother Esau, 'Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food,
that I may eat it, and bless you before the LORD before I die.' Now
therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you. Go to the flock, and
fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for
your father, such as he loves; and you shall bring it to your father
to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies." But Jacob said to
Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a
smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be
mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing." His
mother said to him, "Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my word,
and go, fetch them to me." So he went and took them and brought them
to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his
father loved. Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older
son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her
younger son; and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon
the smooth part of his neck; and she gave the savory food and the
bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
So he went in to his father, and said, "My father"; and he said,
"Here I am; who are you, my son?" Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau
your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my
game, that you may bless me." But Isaac said to his son, "How is it
that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the
LORD your God granted me success." Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come
near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my
son Esau or not." So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt
him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau." And he did not recognize him, because his hands were
hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. He said, "Are
you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am." Then he said, "Bring
it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he
brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his
garments, and blessed him, and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the
smell of a field which the LORD has blessed! May God give you of the
dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain
and wine. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be
lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses
you!"
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had
scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother
came in from his hunting. He also prepared savory food, and brought
it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise,
and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me." His father Isaac
said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your
first-born, Esau." Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then
that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you
came, and I have blessed him? - Yes, and he shall be blessed." When
Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly
great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also,
O my father!" But he said, "Your brother came with guile, and he
has taken away your blessing." Esau said, "Is he not rightly named
Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my
birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said,
"Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" Isaac answered Esau,
"Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to
him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What
then can I do for you, my son?" Esau said to his father, "Have you
but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father."
And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father
answered him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your
dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you
shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose
you shall break his yoke from your neck." Now Esau hated Jacob
because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau
said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching;
then I will kill my brother Jacob."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Proverbs 19:16-25
He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the
word will die. He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he
will repay him for his deed. Discipline your son while there is hope;
do not set your heart on his destruction. A man of great wrath will
pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it
again. Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain
wisdom for the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it
is the purpose of the LORD that will be established. What is
desired in a man is loyalty, and a poor man is better than a liar. The
fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he
will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the
dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer,
and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding,
and he will gain knowledge.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Antipas, Bishop of Pergamon
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Antipas was a contemporary of the holy Apostles, by whom he was
made Bishop of Pergamum. He contested during the reign of Domitian,
when he was cast, as it is said, into a bronze bull that had been
heated exceedingly. The Evangelist John writes of him in the Book of
Revelation, and says (as it were from the mouth of Christ, Who says to the
Angel [that is, the Bishop] of the Church of Pergamum): "I know thy
works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is; and thou
holdest fast My Name, and hast not denied My Faith, even in those days
wherein Antipas was my faithful Martyr, who was slain among you, where
Satan dwelleth" (Rev. 2:13). The faithful pray to this Saint for
ailments of the teeth.
Apolytikion in the First Tone
The celebrated hierarch and Pegamum's first prelate, the
fellow-contestant of Martyrs and most divine myrrh-streamer, ye faithful, come let
us honour now wise Antipas, who truly is a great and swift healer of
severely afflicted teeth, and cry to him with our whole soul: Glory to
Christ that hath glorified thee. Glory to Him that hath crowned thee.
Glory to Him that worketh healings for all through thee.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Unto the hierarch and renowned Great Martyr of the Lord, to the most
excellent protector of all Pergamum, unto him that cast our common foe down
in ruin, unto Antipas let us sing praises as is due, for he healeth
them that suffer from afflicted teeth. Let us cry with love:
Rejoice, O thrice-blessed Father.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Monday, April 11, 2011
Strict Fast
Readings for today:
Isaiah 48:17-49:4
Genesis 27:1-41
Proverbs 19:16-25
Feasts and Saints celebrated today:
Antipas, Bishop of Pergamon
Pharmuthios the Anchorite
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Isaiah 48:17-49:4
Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the
LORD your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you
should go. O that you had hearkened to my commandments! Then your peace
would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of
the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand, and your
descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed
from before me."
Go forth from Babylon, flee from Chaldea, declare this with a
shout of joy, proclaim it, send it forth to the end of the earth; say,
"The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob!" They thirsted not when he
led them through the deserts; he made water flow for them from the
rock; he cleft the rock and the water gushed out. "There is no peace,"
says the LORD, "for the wicked."
Listen to me, O coastlands, and hearken, you peoples from afar.
The LORD called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named
my name. He made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of his
hand he hid me; he made me a polished arrow, in his quiver he hid me
away. And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will
be glorified." But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my
strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely my right is with the LORD, and
my recompense with my God." And now the LORD says, who formed me
from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him, and that
Israel might be gathered to him, for I am honored in the eyes of the
LORD, and my God has become my strength.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Genesis 27:1-41
When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he
called Esau his older son, and said to him, "My son"; and he answered,
"Here I am." He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my
death. Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go
out to the field, and hunt game for me, and prepare for me savory
food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat; that I may
bless you before I die." Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to
his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and
bring it, Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to
your brother Esau, 'Bring me game, and prepare for me savory food,
that I may eat it, and bless you before the LORD before I die.' Now
therefore, my son, obey my word as I command you. Go to the flock, and
fetch me two good kids, that I may prepare from them savory food for
your father, such as he loves; and you shall bring it to your father
to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies." But Jacob said to
Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a
smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be
mocking him, and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing." His
mother said to him, "Upon me be your curse, my son; only obey my word,
and go, fetch them to me." So he went and took them and brought them
to his mother; and his mother prepared savory food, such as his
father loved. Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older
son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her
younger son; and the skins of the kids she put upon his hands and upon
the smooth part of his neck; and she gave the savory food and the
bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
So he went in to his father, and said, "My father"; and he said,
"Here I am; who are you, my son?" Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau
your first-born. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my
game, that you may bless me." But Isaac said to his son, "How is it
that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the
LORD your God granted me success." Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Come
near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my
son Esau or not." So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt
him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the
hands of Esau." And he did not recognize him, because his hands were
hairy like his brother Esau's hands; so he blessed him. He said, "Are
you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am." Then he said, "Bring
it to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he
brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
So he came near and kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his
garments, and blessed him, and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the
smell of a field which the LORD has blessed! May God give you of the
dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain
and wine. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be
lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be every one who curses you, and blessed be every one who blesses
you!"
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had
scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother
came in from his hunting. He also prepared savory food, and brought
it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise,
and eat of his son's game, that you may bless me." His father Isaac
said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your
first-born, Esau." Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who was it then
that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you
came, and I have blessed him? - Yes, and he shall be blessed." When
Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly
great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also,
O my father!" But he said, "Your brother came with guile, and he
has taken away your blessing." Esau said, "Is he not rightly named
Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my
birthright; and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said,
"Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" Isaac answered Esau,
"Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to
him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What
then can I do for you, my son?" Esau said to his father, "Have you
but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father."
And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Then Isaac his father
answered him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your
dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you
shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you break loose
you shall break his yoke from your neck." Now Esau hated Jacob
because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau
said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching;
then I will kill my brother Jacob."
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Old Testament Reading
The reading is from Proverbs 19:16-25
He who keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises the
word will die. He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he
will repay him for his deed. Discipline your son while there is hope;
do not set your heart on his destruction. A man of great wrath will
pay the penalty; for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it
again. Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain
wisdom for the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it
is the purpose of the LORD that will be established. What is
desired in a man is loyalty, and a poor man is better than a liar. The
fear of the LORD leads to life; and he who has it rests satisfied; he
will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the
dish, and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer,
and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding,
and he will gain knowledge.
(C) 2011 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Antipas, Bishop of Pergamon
Reading from the Synaxarion:
Saint Antipas was a contemporary of the holy Apostles, by whom he was
made Bishop of Pergamum. He contested during the reign of Domitian,
when he was cast, as it is said, into a bronze bull that had been
heated exceedingly. The Evangelist John writes of him in the Book of
Revelation, and says (as it were from the mouth of Christ, Who says to the
Angel [that is, the Bishop] of the Church of Pergamum): "I know thy
works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is; and thou
holdest fast My Name, and hast not denied My Faith, even in those days
wherein Antipas was my faithful Martyr, who was slain among you, where
Satan dwelleth" (Rev. 2:13). The faithful pray to this Saint for
ailments of the teeth.
Apolytikion in the First Tone
The celebrated hierarch and Pegamum's first prelate, the
fellow-contestant of Martyrs and most divine myrrh-streamer, ye faithful, come let
us honour now wise Antipas, who truly is a great and swift healer of
severely afflicted teeth, and cry to him with our whole soul: Glory to
Christ that hath glorified thee. Glory to Him that hath crowned thee.
Glory to Him that worketh healings for all through thee.
Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
Unto the hierarch and renowned Great Martyr of the Lord, to the most
excellent protector of all Pergamum, unto him that cast our common foe down
in ruin, unto Antipas let us sing praises as is due, for he healeth
them that suffer from afflicted teeth. Let us cry with love:
Rejoice, O thrice-blessed Father.
Reading courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Apolytikion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
Kontakion courtesy of Holy Transfiguration Monastery - Brookline, MA
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