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Thursday, 13th April 2017 --- 5 Baramoudah 1733



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Holy Pascha Week

Holy Thursday of Pascha_Week



Season Pascha Week
Tune : Attribis
Strict Abstinence

Thursday Morning

Theme of the Hours :
+ Preparation for Passover.

First hour of the day of Holy Thursday

Exodus 17:8-16
Exodus 15:23-16:3
Isaiah 58:1-11
Ezekiel 18:20-32
Acts 1:15-20
Psalms 55:21,12
Luke 22:7-13

Third hour of the day of Holy Thursday

Exodus 32:30-33:5
Sirach 24:1-15
Proverbs 30:2-6
Psalms 94:21,23
Matthew 26:17-19

Sixth hour of the day of Holy Thursday

Jeremiah 7:2-15
Ezekiel 20:39-44
Sirach 12:13-13:1
Psalms 31:18,13
Mark 14:12-16

Ninth hour of the day of Holy Thursday

Genesis 22:1-19
Isaiah 61:1-6
Genesis 14:17-20
Job 27:1-28:13
Psalms 23:1-2
Matthew 26:17-19

The Liturgy of the_Water

Theme of the Liturgy : + Jesus washes the feet of his disciples..

Genesis 18:1-23
Proverbs 9:1-11
Exodus 14:1-15:27
Joshua 1:1-18
Joshua 3:1-17
Isaiah 4:2-5
Isaiah 55:1-56:1
Ezekiel 36:25-29
Ezekiel 47:1-9
1 Timothy 4:9-5:10
Psalms 51:7,10
John 13:1-17

The Liturgy

Theme of the Liturgy : : God's new covenant with mankind.

1 Corinthians 11:23-34
Psalms 23:5,4,19
Matthew 26:20-29
1 Corinthians 11:23-34
Psalms 23:5-41:9
Matthew 26:20-29

Eleventh hour of the day of Holy Thursday

Isaiah 52:13-53:12
Isaiah 19:19-25
Zechariah 12:11-14:3
Zechariah 14:6-9
Psalms 50:17-18
John 13:21-30

Friday Night

Theme of the Hours :
+ Jesus declares that He will be betrayed
+ Jesus warns Peter of his denial
+ Jesus last ceremony to His disciples
+ Jesus last prayer
+ Judas betrays Jesus to the priests
+ Peter Cuts the slaves ear

The First Hour of Friday Night

Jeremiah 8:17-9:6
Psalms 102:1,8
John 13:33-14:25
John 14:26-15:25
John 15:26-16:33
John 17:1-26

Third hour of the eve of Holy Friday

Ezekiel 36:16-26
Psalms 109:1-3
Matthew 26:30-35
Mark 14:26-31
Luke 22:31-39
John 18:1-2

Sixth hour of the eve of Holy Friday

Ezekiel 22:23-28
Psalms 59:1-69:20
Matthew 26:36-46
Mark 14:32-42
Luke 22:40-46
John 18:3-9

Ninth hour of the eve of Holy Friday

Jeremiah 9:7-11
Ezekiel 21:28-32
Psalms 28:3-4
Psalms 35:4
Matthew 26:47-58
Mark 14:43-54
Luke 22:47-55
John 18:10-14

Eleventh hour of the eve of Holy Friday

Isaiah 27:11-28:15
Psalms 2:1-2,4,5
Matthew 26:59-75
Mark 14:55-72
Luke 22:56-65
John 18:15-27

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Not to be read in the Church during this time of the year.

Synaxarium

Day 5 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 Fifth Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah

Commemoration of the Great Prophet Ezekiel, the son of Buzi

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On this day the great prophet Ezekiel the son of Buzi departed. This righteous man was a priest, and Nebuchadnezzar exiled him with king Jehoiachin to Babylon. There in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar, the spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he prophesied about wondrous things for twenty two years. He spoke concerning the birth of the Lord Christ by the Lady the Virgin St. Mary and how after she had borne Him, she would remain a virgin: "Then He brought me back to the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces toward the east, but it was shut. And the LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter by it, because the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut" (Ezekiel 44:1-2). He prophesied concerning the baptism that sanctify the soul of the man and his body, soften his stony heart, and make him a son of God by the descent of the Holy Spirit upon him. He admonished the priests for their forsaken the teaching of the people, warning them that God will ask for their souls from them if they neglect teaching them. He prophesied concerning the common resurrection and the rising of the bodies with their souls, and about their rewards for whatever they deserve. He said many useful sayings which are of benefit to those who read them, and God manifested through him many signs and great wonders. When the children of Israel worshipped idols in Babylon, he rebuked them and their leaders rose up and killed him. They buried him in the tomb of Shem and Arphaxad.

May His prayers be with us. Amen.

Martyrdom of St.Hepatius, Bishop of Gangra

      On this day also St. Hepatius, Bishop of Gangra, in the province of Paphlognia (Pavlagonia), was martyred. He was in the early part of the fourth century, and he attended the first Universal Council at Nicea, year 325 A.D. He was one of the great fathers that defended the Divinity of the Word of God and His equality with His Father in essence, and refuted the error of the heresies of Arius, Appolonius, Novatius and others. God had honored him with the gift of performing wonders, and was called the wonder worker. One of his wonders, during the days of Emperor Constans the son of Constantine the great: A beast entered the royal barns. The Emperor sent to the Saint asking him to go to the barns and kill that beast. The holy shepherd went there and after he prayed, he asked the servants to collect firewood in the yard of the city and put it on fire and they did. The Saint took his staff and put it in the beast's mouth and led it to the fire and it was burnt. As a commemoration of this miracle the Emperor ordered to hang the saint's picture over the doors of the barns. On his way back, from Nicea after attending the first Universal Council, to Gangra, a group of heretics were waiting for him by the road, attacked him, stoned him and he was martyred (On the 31st. day of March) then threw his body in a hay barn. When the people of the city of Gangra knew of the departure of their good shepherd, they went in hast to the place where he was martyred and took the holy remains with great honor and buried him in the city.

May his blessings be with us and glory be to God forever. Amen.


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