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Thursday, 25th April 2024 --- 17 Baramoudah 1740
Holy Pascha Week
Tuesday of Pascha Week
Season Pascha Week
Tune : Attribis
Strict Abstinence
Theme of the day : Day of teaching Parables in the temple and preaching about the end of the world.
Verse of the Day : Matthew 24:35
First Hour
Exodus 19:1-9Job 23:2-24:25
Hosea 4:1-8
Psalms 120:2,6,7
John 8:21-29
Third Hour
Deuteronomy 8:11-20Sirach 2:1-9
Job 27:1-20
Job 28:1-2
Kings 19:9-14
Psalms 119:154,155
Matthew 23:37-24:2
Sixth Hour
Ezekiel 21:3-13Sirach 4:20-5:2
Isaiah 1:1-9
Psalms 18:48,17
John 8:12-20
Ninth Hour
Genesis 6:5-9:6Proverbs 9:1-11
Isaiah 40:9-30
Daniel 7:9-15
Proverbs 8:1-12
Psalms 25:1,2,3
Matthew 24:3-35
Eleventh Hour
Isaiah 30:25-30Proverbs 6:20-7:4
Psalms 45:6-6;41:1-1
Matthew 25:14-26:2
First Hour of eve of Wednesday
Ezekiel 22:17-22Ezekiel 22:23-29
Psalms 59:16,17
Matthew 22:1-14
Third Hour of eve of Wednesday
Amos 5:18-27Psalms 65:4
Matthew 24:36-51
Sixth Hour of eve of Wednesday
Jeremiah 13:9-14Psalms 102:1,2
Matthew 25:1-13
Ninth Hour of eve of Wednesday
Hosea 9:14-10:2Psalms 22:20-21
Matthew 23:29-36
Eleventh Hour of eve of Wednesday
Wisdom 7:24-30Psalms 57:1
John 11:55-57
Not to be read in the Church during this time of the year.
Synaxarium
Day 17 of the Blessed Coptic Month of Baramoudah, may God make it always received, year after year, with reassurance and tranquility, while our sins after forgiven by the tender mercies of our God my fathers and brothers.
Amen.
The Seventeenth Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah
Martyrdom of St.James the Apostle, the Brother of St.John the Apostle
On this day, St. James the Apostle, the son of Zebedee, and the brother of St. John, the Apostle, was martyred. After he had preached the Gospel in Judea and Samaria, he went to Spain. He preached the Gospel there, and its people believed in the Lord Christ. He returned to Jerusalem and pursued his ministry. He always advised his flock to give alms to the poor, the needy, and the weak. They accused him before Herod who called him and asked him: "Are you the one that instigating the people not to give the taxes to Caesar but to give it to the poor and the churches?" Then he smote him with the sword, cutting off his head, and St. James received the crown of martyrdom. Clement of Alexandria, from the fathers of the second century, said: "The soldier that seized the Saint, when he saw his courage, he realized that there must be a better life and asked the Saint for his forgiveness. Then the soldier confessed Christianity and received the crown of martyrdom (Acts 12:1-2) along with the Apostle in the year 44 A.D." Because Herod saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to seize Peter also. So when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to keep him, intending to bring him before the people after Passover. (Acts 12:3-4) So on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne and gave an oration to them. And the people kept shouting, "The voice of a god and not of a man!" Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died. (Acts 12:21-23) As of the body of St. James, the believers took it, shrouded it, and buried it by the Temple. It was said that the body of St. James was translated to Spain, where James the elder considered to be its Apostle.
May His prayers be with us and Glory be to our God forever. Amen.