Readings for Hudadeh for the Fourth week including Synaxarium: Mitsague DAY 2 23rd Day of Be Abeyeh Tsome (1) Romans 7: 7 - 14 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law, for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law, sin was dead. 9 For I was alive without the law once but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it, slew me. 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal, sold under sin. (2) James 1: 26 - 27 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. (3) Acts 7: 51 - 54 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers. 53 Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. (4) Psalm 119 (76 - 100) 76 Let, I pray thee, Thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to Thy word unto Thy servant. 77 Let Thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live, for Thy law is my delight. 78 Let the proud be ashamed, for they dealt perversely with me without a cause; but I will meditate in Thy precepts. 79 Let those that fear Thee turn unto me, and those that have known Thy testimonies. 80 Let my heart be sound in Thy statutes, that I be not ashamed. 81 My soul fainteth for Thy salvation but I hope in Thy word. 82 Mine eyes fail for Thy word, saying, When wilt Thou comfort me? 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget Thy statutes. 84 How many are the days of Thy servant? when wilt Thou execute judgment on them that persecute me? 85 The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after Thy law. 86 All Thy commandments are faithful; they persecute me wrongfully, help Thou me. 87 They had almost consumed me upon Earth but I forsook not Thy precepts. 88 Quicken me after Thy lovingkindness, so shall I keep the testimony of Thy mouth. 89 For ever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in Heaven. 90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations, Thou hast established the Earth and it abideth. 91 They continue this day according to Thine ordinances, for all are Thy servants. 92 Unless Thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. 93 I will never forget Thy precepts, for with them Thou hast quickened me. 94 I am Thine: save me, for I have sought Thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me but I will consider Thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection but Thy commandment is exceeding broad. 97 O how love I Thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou, through Thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients because I keep Thy precepts. (5) St Mark 5: 17 - 22 17 And they began to pray Him to depart out of their coasts. 18 And when He was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed Him that he might be with Him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him, and all men did marvel. 21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto Him, and He was nigh unto the sea. 22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw Him, he fell at His feet... SYNAXARIUM: On this day became martyrs Andrianus and his wife, and Eusebius and ‘Arma, and forty martyrs who suffered very severe tortures in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise ! and who refused to worship idols of gold and silver. They said, “We worship the God of heaven and of earth, our Lord Jesus Christ.” Afterwards they cut off their heads with the sword, and they received the crown of martyrdom in the kingdom of heaven. And on this day are commemorated the twenty hundred martyrs who [suffered] with Abba Nob.And on this day also died the holy father and ascetic Kueten (Cythinus). This holy man came from a district the name of which was Bantanyos, in the country of Syria. His parents worshipped the stars; his father’s name was Nestor and his mother’s name was Theodora, and he was [born] in the days when the Apostles were preaching in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. When this holy man arrived at man’s estate, there appeared in him many virtues, purity, righteousness, and gentleness (or, humility), and he was exceedingly compassionate; and he was skilled in every branch of learning. His parents wished to make him marry a wife, but he did not desire to do so. And they settled him in a house andmarried him to a wife against his will, but he refused to consort with her, not because of the law of righteousness, and not because of weakness of body, but because he hated the lust of the flesh; and he dwelt with his wife many days but preserved his virginity. And he multiplied his prayers, and he petitioned God therein, and made many supplications, saying, “O God, have mercy upon me in Thy knowledge.” And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him as he did unto Cornelius, and he taught him the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, and he commanded him to go to one of the apostles, and to be baptized by him. And he went and was baptized with Christian baptism, and he learned all the Law of the Christian Faith, and he received the Divine Mystery. He heard continually the teaching of the holy Apostle Paul, and he acquired from him purity, and the working of righteousness, and devotion to God’s service, and humility, and the habit of praying continually, and fasting, and prostration, and vigil; and God gave him the power to work signs and wonders, and he had dominion over Satans. And he persuaded his parents, and gave them instruction, and brought them into the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, and also his wife, and her parents and kinsfolk. When one of the unbelievers came into the house of idols to offer sacrifice to Satan, Kueten (Cythinus), the holy man, knew him, and he cried out against Satan, and he rebuked him, and commanded him to confess before the people, and to tell them who he was. And when the holy man forced him, that devil confessed before the people that he was Satan, and was not a god. And all the people who were there cried out, saying, “One is the God of Saint Kueten (Cythinus),” and they believed and were baptized with Christian baptism. And when the governor, who had been appointed by Claudius Caesar, heard the report of this holy man, he sent and had him brought before him, and the holy man confessed our Lord Jesus Christ before him. And the governor commanded his soldiers to bind him, and to beat him very severely, and they did so. When the man of the city heard that the soldiers were torturing Saint Kueten (Cythinus), they ran, and they all came to him, and wanted to kill the governor, because of their love for Saint Kueten (Cythinus). And the governor fled from them, and they released the holy man from his fetters, and they washed the blood off him, and carried him to his house. And he lived for many years, and pleased God Whom he loved exceedingly, and he died in peace. After his death the believers dedicated a church to his name, and they carried his holy body into it, and God exhibited many signs and wonders through it. Glory be to God Who is glorified in His Saints. Amen.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:45:46 +0000
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