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Tuesday, 11th April 2017 --- 3 Baramoudah 1733
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 3 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 Third Day of the Blessed Month of Baramoudah
Departure of St.John, Bishop of Jerusalem
On this day Anba John, Bishop of Jerusalem, departed. He was born to Jewish parents, who kept the Law of the Torah. They instructed and taught him well and he excelled in the Law of Moses. He argued and disputed with the Christians until he became convinced of the coming of the Lord Christ, and that He was the true God. He believed on the hand of St. Justus, Bishop of Jerusalem, who baptized and ordained him a deacon. Because of his knowledge, and virtues they chose him a bishop of Jerusalem after the departure of St. Justus. When Andrianus reigned, he commanded to rebuild the ruined parts of the city, he built a tower on the western gate (The gate of the Jewish temple) and he hanged an engraved tablet with his name on the door of that gate. He prevented the Christians from praying at the Golgotha and even passing through it. The Jews and the Gentiles became powerful and troubled the Christians much. Because of that many tribulations and sorrows befell this father, so he asked God that He might receive him. His supplication was accepted and he departed in peace after he stayed on the Episcopal Chair for two years.
May his prayers be with us. Amen.
Departure of the Holy Father Anba Michael, the Seventy-First Pope of the See of St.Mark
On this day also of the year 862 A.M. (March 29th. 1146 A.D.) the holy father Pope Michael, the seventy first Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, departed. He longed to the pure life since his young age so he became a monk in the monastery of St. Macarius. He lived in the desert until he was an old man, in a good pleasing life to God. When Pope Gabriel (70) departed, the bishops, the priests and the lay leaders spent three month searching for who was best suited to succeed him. A monk from the monastery of St. Macarius, called Yoannis Ebn Kedran, came forward nominating himself supported in that by Anba Yacoub, bishop of Lekanah, Anba Christodolus, bishop of Fowa, and Anba Michael, bishop of Tanta. Nevertheless, the bishops of Upper Egypt, the priests of Alexandria and the lay leaders of Cairo did not accept that choice. Finally they all agreed to choose three of the monks and those were: Yoannis Abu El-Fatah, Michael of St. Macarius monastery, and Soliman El-Dekhiary of El-Baramous monastery. They cast a lot among them, and the lot fell on the monk Michael, and they ordained him a Patriarch on the 5th of Mesra, 861 A.M. (July 29th, year 1145 A.D.). He was an honorable old man loving for the poor and the needy. He took for himself a scribe to write his sermons and teachings that he sent to the bishops and priests. When he fell sick, he went to the monastery of St. Macarius, where he departed in peace, after he stayed on the Chair for eight month.
May his prayers be with us and Glory be to God forever. Amen.