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Thursday, 18th April 2024 --- 10 Baramoudah 1740
Holy Pascha Week
Wednesday of Pascha_Week
Season Wednesday of the Pascha Week
Tune : Attribis
Strict Abstinence
Wednesday Morning
Theme of the Hours : Judas Betrayal Anointment of Jesus by precious ointment..
The First Hour of Wednesday
Exodus 17:1-7Proverbs 3:5-14
Hosea 5:13-6:3
Sirach 1:20-2:15
Sirach 3:12-24
Psalms 51:4
Psalms 33:10
John 11:46-57
The Third Hour of Wednesday
Exodus 13:17-22Sirach 22:7-18
Job 27:16-20
Job 28:1-2
Proverbs 4:4-5:4
Psalms 41:6,1
Luke 22:1-6
The Sixth Hour of Wednesday
Exodus 14:13-15:1Isaiah 48:1-6
Sirach 23:7-14
Psalms 83:2,5
John 12:1-8
The Ninth Hour of Wednesday :
Genesis 24:1-9Numbers 20:1-13
Proverbs 1:10-23
Isaiah 59:1-17
Zechariah 11:11-14
Psalms 41:5-6
Matthew 26:3-16
Eleventh hour of the day of Holy Wednesday
Isaiah 28:16-29Psalms 6:2-69:17
John 12:27-36
Thursday Night
Theme of the Hours : + Jesus is one with the Father.
First hour of the eve of Holy Thursday
Ezekiel 43:5-11Psalms 69:1,16
John 10:17-21
Third hour of the eve of Holy Thursday
Amos 4:4-13Psalms 55:21,1
Mark 14:3-11
Sixth hour of the eve of Holy Thursday
Amos 3:1-11Psalms 140:1-2
John 12:36-43
Ninth hour of the eve of Holy Thursday
Ezekiel 20:27-33Psalms 7:1-2
John 10:29-38
Eleventh hour of the eve of Holy Thursday
Jeremiah 8:4-10Psalms 62:7,6
John 12:44-50
Not to be read in the Church during this time of the year.
Synaxarium
Day 10 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 Tenth Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah
Departure of Anba Isaac, the Disciple of Anba Apollo
On this day the holy father Anba Isaac the Disciple of the great father Anba Apollo, departed. This holy man renounced the world since his young age. He became a monk in the wilderness of Sheahat (Scetis), and a disciple of Anba Apollo for twenty five years. He fought a strenuous fight that weakened his body to kill his body desires, and control his will. He mastered the virtue of silence and quietness especially during the prayers and the Liturgies. He used to stand during the liturgy with his hands clasped and his head bent until the end of the prayer then he returned to his cell, shutting his door, and did not associate with any one that day. When they asked him: "Why do you not talk to anyone who wish to talk to you during prayers or the Liturgy?" He answered saying: "There is time for talking and there is time for praying." When his departure drew near the fathers the monks gathered around him to receive his blessing and they asked him: "Why did you flee from men." He answered them: "I was not fleeing from men but from Satan. If a man hold a lighted lamp in the wind, it will be extinguished. So, it is with us when our hearts and minds shine because of the prayers and the Liturgy then we talk with each other, our hearts and minds become dark." And this holy father having finished his good spiritual strife, departed in peace.
May his prayers be with us. Amen.
Departure of Pope Gabriel II, the Seventy Pope of Alexandria, who was known as Ibn Turaik
On this day also of the year 861 A.M. (April 5th., 1145 A.D.) the great and holy father Pope Gabriel II, the seventy Pope of the See of St. Mark, who was known as Ibn Turaik, departed. This Pope was from the nobles of Cairo, and he was a writer, scribe, distinguished scholar, with a commendable conduct. He transcribed with his hand many Arabic and Coptic books, he retained its contents and comprehended its interpretations. The elders of the people and the clergy chose him for the Patriarchal Chair, and his enthronement was on the 9th. of Amshir, 847 A.M. (February 3rd., 1131 A.D.). When he prayed his first Divine Liturgy in St. Macarius monastery as the custom of the previous Patriarchs, at the end of the Liturgy, he added to the profession after the saying: "I believe and confess to the last breath, that this is the life-giving Flesh that Thine Only-Begotten Son, our Lord, God and Savior, Jesus Christ, took from our Lady, the Lady of us all, the holy Mother of God, Saint Mary," this sentence "He made it one with His Divinity." The monks objected, lest it would be understood from that there was mingling between His Divinity and His Humanity, and asked him to refrain from using it. He refused saying: "This statement was added by a decree from the council of bishops." After a great and lengthy discussion, they decided to add this sentence: "Without mingling, without confusion, and without alteration," because of the fear of falling in the heresy of Eutyches, and he agreed with them. During his papacy, he ordained 53 bishops and many priests, he drew up Canons and laws concerning inheritance, and many other matters. He never took any money from anyone, nor he touched the revenue of the churches, or that of the religious endowments for the poor. When the governor of that time asked him for money, the nobles and people collected three hundred Dinars in gold and gave them to the governor on his behalf. He remained on the Episcopal Chair for fourteen years, two month and two days, then departed in peace.
May his prayers be with us and glory be to God forever. Amen.