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On Wednesday | March 13 |
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THE PROPHECY |
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Prokeimenon. Mode pl. 2. |
O Lord, save Your people. |
To You, O Lord, I cry; O my God. [SAAS] |
The reading is from the Prophecy of Joel. |
PRIEST |
Wisdom. Let us be attentive. |
READER |
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Joel 2:12-26 |
Now says the Lord your God, “Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting and wailing and with mourning; rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for He is merciful and compassionate. He is longsuffering and plenteous in mercy and repents of evils. Who knows if He will return and change His mind – if He will leave a blessing behind Him, even an offering and drink-offering to the Lord our God?” Sound the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly; gather the people, sanctify the congregation, call out the elders, and gather the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom go out from his bedchamber and the bride out of her bridal chamber. Between the porch and the altar, the priests of the altar, ministering to the Lord, will each be weeping and will say, “O Lord, spare Your people; do not give Your inheritance to reproach, that the Gentiles should rule over them, lest they should say among the Gentiles, ‘Where is their God?’” But the Lord was zealous for His land and spared His people. And the Lord answered His people and said, “Behold, I send you wheat, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied with them. I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations, and I will drive the army from the north away from you, and I shall force him into a dry land. I will drown his face in the eastern sea and his back in the western sea; its stench and foul smell will rise up, because he has done powerful works.” O land, be of good courage; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. Take courage, you beasts of the field, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, and the trees bear their fruit. And again the vine and the fig tree yield their full potency. And you children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in the Lord your God, for He gives food that is right for you, and He will shower you as before with the early and the late rain. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the presses of wine and olive oil will overflow. “And I will restore to you the years the grasshopper and the locust have eaten, and for the blight, and the caterpillar, even for My great army, which I sent against you. You will eat abundantly and be satisfied and will praise the name of the Lord your God for what He has so wondrously done unto you. And My people will not be put to shame forever.” [SAAS] |
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Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. |
The Lord will give strength to His people. |
Bring to the Lord, O you sons of God. [SAAS] |
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The Readings from Vespers |
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THE PROPHECY |
READER |
The reading is from the Prophecy of Joel. |
PRIEST |
Wisdom. Let us be attentive. |
READER |
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Joel 4:12-21 |
Thus says the Lord, “Let all the nations rouse themselves and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I shall sit to judge all the nations round about. Bring out the sickles, for the harvest is ripe. Come in and tread the grapes, for the winepress is full, the wine vats overflow; for their wickedness is multiplied. The news resounded in the valley of judgment, for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of judgment. The sun and moon shall become dark, and the stars shall withdraw their light. And the Lord shall cry out from Zion, and He shall utter His voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and earth will quake, but the Lord shall keep His people safe and shall strengthen the sons of Israel. So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, the one dwelling in Zion on My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be a holy city, and no more will strangers pass through her. And it will come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip sweetness, and milk shall flow from the hills, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with water. And a fountain shall flow out from the house of the Lord, and it will supply water to the Valley of Acacias. Egypt shall become a desolation and Edom a wilderness because of the wrongdoings against the people of Judah, because of the innocent blood shed in their land. But Judah shall be inhabited forever and Jerusalem unto generations of generations. And I shall avenge their blood and shall not let it go unpunished. The Lord shall dwell in Zion.” [SAAS] |
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Prokeimenon. Mode pl. 2. |
Let Israel hope in the Lord. |
O Lord, my heart is not exalted. [SAAS] |
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Stand for the reading of the Synaxarion. |
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Synaxarion |
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From the Menaion. |
On March 13 we commemorate the recovery of the relics of our father among the saints Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy hieromartyr Publius, Bishop of Athens. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Aphricanus, Publius, and Terence; the services in their honor were held at the monastery called Paulopetrion. |
On this day St. Habib of Hermoupolis died when he was tied to stone and cast into a river. |
On this day the holy martyr Christina of Persia died after being scourged. |
By the intercessions of Your Saints, O God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Dairy: Dairy, eggs, fish, oil and wine are allowed. Refrain from meat. |
It is the third week of the Triodion. |