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28.02.2015, 07:01:22
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18.03.2015, 06:18:46
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March 17 - Today's Scripture Readings
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
Proverbs 12.8-22 A man is commended according to his good sense, but one of perverse mind is despised. Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread. A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel. He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense. The strong tower of the wicked comes to ruin, but the root of the righteous stands firm. An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the righteous escapes from trouble. From the fruit of his words a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man’s hand comes back to him. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult. He who speaks the truth gives honest evidence, but a false witness utters deceit. There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Truthful lips endure for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan good have joy. No ill befalls the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. Lying lips are an abomination to the LORD, but those who act faithfully are his delight. Genesis 9.8-17 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark. I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.” And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations: I set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth. When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds, I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the clouds, I will look upon it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.” God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”
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02.04.2015, 10:29:02
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Readings for April 2, 2015
Venerable Titus the Wonderworker (9th); Martyrs Amphianos and Aedesios of Lydia (306); Martyr Polycarp of Alexandria (4th); Venerable Gregory of Nicomedia Thursday of the Sixth Week of Lent Prov 23.15-24.5 My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad. My soul will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way. Be not among winebibbers, or among gluttonous eaters of meat; for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags. Hearken to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; he who begets a wise son will be glad in him. Let your father and mother be glad, let her who bore you rejoice. My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. For a harlot is a deep pit; an adventuress is a narrow well. She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men. Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long over wine, those who go to try mixed wine. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things. You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, like one who lies on the top of a mast. “They struck me,” you will say, “but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek another drink.” Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them; for their minds devise violence, and their lips talk of mischief. By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. A wise man is mightier than a strong man, and a man of knowledge than he who has strength; Gen 46.1-7 So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am I.” Then he said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt; for I will there make of you a great nation. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again; and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.” Then Jacob set out from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. They also took their cattle and their goods, which they had gained in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, his sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters; all his offspring he brought with him into Egypt. unsubscribe
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#76
08.04.2015, 08:15:12
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Today's Scripture Readings
Holy Wednesday
Job 2.1-10 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them to present himself before the LORD. And the LORD said to Satan, "Whence have you come?" Satan answered the LORD, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it." And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil? He still holds fast his integrity, although you moved me against him, to destroy him without cause." Then Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life. But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face." And the LORD said to Satan, "Behold, he is in your power; only spare his life." So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and afflicted Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. And he took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes. Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God, and die." But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips. Exod 2.11-22 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together; and he said to the man that did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?" He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known." When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh, and stayed in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well. Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. The shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock. When they came to their father Reuel, he said, "How is it that you have come so soon today?" They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and even drew water for us and watered the flock." He said to his daughters, "And where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread." And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. She bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land." Last edited by mirela.t; 08.04.2015 at 09:53:32.
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11.04.2015, 10:10:15
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The Lamentations- First Stasis
1.In a grave they laid Three,
yet,O Christ Thou art Life, and the armies of the angels beheld amazed, giving glory that Thou chose to condescend. 2.How,O Life,dost Thou die? How dost Thou dwell entombed, Who hast slashed through all the bonds their graves? 3.We,O Lord,exalt Thee, O Christ Jesus,our King, and we venerate Thy Passion and burial through which Thou hast brought redemption from our sins. 4.Thou hast set the measures of the earth,yet this day in a narrow tomb dost dwell,Jesus,King of all, Who hast raised those who were dead up from their tombs. 5.O mine own Christ Jesus, Thou art King of the world. Why hast Thou come down to Hades to seek the dead? Is it not to set the race of mortals free? 6.He Who is the Master of creation appears as a corpse and lies entombed in a fresh-hewn grave, though He emptied every gravesite of its dead. 7.In a grave they laid Thee, yet,O Christ,Thou art Life. By Thy death hast Thou abolished the realm of death, and upon the world hast poured down streams of Life. 8.Fairer in His beauty than all creatures on earth, He is seen now lying lifeless,his beauty gone, yet all beauty in creation springs from Him. 9.O mine own sweet Jesus, Saving light of the world, can the darkness of the grave hide Thy Light within? Neither thought nor word can say what Thou hast borne. 10.Neither Nature's reason, nor the angels,O Christ, grasp the mystery enfolding Thy burial, beyond all our understanding and all words. 11.I revere Thy passion Thine entombment I praise, and I magnify Thy might,Loving Friend of man, they have ransomed me from passion that corrupt. 12.When Thy mother saw Thee brought to slaughter,O Lamb, she was stabbed with painful torment,her anguished sobs called the flock to join her bitter cries of grief. 13."Woe is me!"the Virgin mourned through heart-breaking sobs. "Thou art,Jesus,my most precious,beloved Son! Gone is my light,and the Light of all the world!" 14."God and Word eternal, O my Gladness and Joy! How shall I endure Thy three days inside the tomb when my heart is breaking with a mother's grief"? 15."Who will give me water and a fountain of tears", cried the Virgin Bride of God in her deep despair, "that in grief for my sweet Jesus I might weep". Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. 16.We will sing Thy praises, Word and God of all things, with Thy Father and Thy Holy Spirit Thou art praised, and we glorify Thy burial divine. Both now and forever and unto the ages of ages.Amin. 17.Thou art known as blessed, Theotokos,most pure. With our faithful hearts we honour the burial suffered three days by Thy Son,Who is our God. 18.In a grave they laid Thee, yet,O Christ Thou art Life, and the armies of the angels beheld amazed, giving glory that Thou chose to condescend.
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Cuvine-se cu adevarat sa te fericim pe tine, Nascatoare de Dumnezeu, cea pururea fericita si prea nevinovata si Maica Dumnezeului nostru. Ceea ce esti mai cinstita decat Heruvimii si mai slavita fara de asemanare decat Serafimii, care fara stricaciune pe Dumnezeu-Cuvantul ai nascut, pe tine, cea cu adevarat Nascatoare de Dumnezeu, te marim.
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#79
15.04.2015, 11:30:53
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15.04.2015, 14:18:17
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 If you find that there is no love in you, but you want to have it, then do deeds of love, even though you do them without love in the beginning. The Lord will see your desire and striving and will put love in your heart. † St. Ambrose of Optina 
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