Saturday, March 10, 2012

Greek Orthodox Arch-Diocese of America Daily Scripture and Synaxarion Readings for Saturday, 10 March 2012

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Daily Scripture Readings and Lives of the Saints for Saturday, March 10, 2012

Fast Day (Wine and Oil Allowed)

Feasts and Saints celebrated today:

      Second Saturday in Lent 
    Kodratos the Martyr & his Companions
    Anastasia of Alexandria


Readings for today:

    St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 3:12-16
    Mark 1:35-44


Second Saturday in Lent 

Apolytikion in the Second Tone
O Apostles, martyrs, prophets, hierarchs, righteous, and just ones, who have finished your course well and have kept the Faith:  seeing ye have boldness with the Saviour, beseech Him for us, since He is good, that our souls be saved, we pray.


Kontakion in the Plagal of the Fourth Tone
With the Saints grant rest, O Christ, to the souls of Thy servants, where there is neither pain, nor sorrow, nor sighing, but life unending.


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Kodratos the Martyr & his Companions

Reading from the Synaxarion:

These Martyrs contested for piety's sake in Corinth during the reign of the Emperor Valerian (253-260).

Apolytikion in the Fourth Tone
Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their courageous contest for Thee received as the prize the crowns of incorruption and life from Thee, our immortal God.  For since they possessed Thy strength, they cast down the tyrants and wholly destroyed the demons' strengthless presumption.  O Christ God, by their prayers, save our souls, since Thou art merciful.


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Epistle Reading

The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Hebrews 3:12-16

BRETHREN, take care lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? 

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Gospel Reading

The reading is from Mark 1:35-44

At that time, Jesus rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed. And Simon and those who were with him pursued him, and they found him and said to him, "Everyone is searching for you." And he said to them, "Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also; for that is why I came out." And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons. And a leper came to him beseeching him, and kneeling said to him, "If you will, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I will; be clean." And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. And he sternly charged him, and sent him away at once, and said to him, "See that you say nothing to any one; but go, show yourself to a priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, for a proof to them."

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