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2024 |
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On Friday | April 5 |
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THE PROPHECY |
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Prokeimenon. Mode pl. 2. |
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Psalm 57 (58). |
If, then, you truly speak of righteousness, do you judge rightly, O you sons of men? |
A righteous man shall be glad when he sees the vengeance. [SAAS] |
The reading is from the Prophecy of Isaiah. |
PRIEST |
Wisdom. Let us be attentive. |
READER |
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Is 13:2-13 |
Thus says the Lord, “Lift up a sign on the mountain of the plain and raise your voice to them. Do not fear; comfort with your hand; open the gates, O you rulers. I command and I lead them. They are sanctified, and I lead them. My mighty ones come to fulfill My anger – rejoicing and insulting at the same time.” The sound of many nations upon the mountains, like that of many nations, the voice of kings and nations gathered together – the Lord of hosts commanded a warring nation to come from a far country, from the end of heaven, the Lord and His weapons, to destroy all the inhabited world. Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand, and destruction will come from God. Therefore every hand will grow weary, and every man’s soul will be fearful. The elders will be troubled. Pangs will take hold of them, like a woman in childbirth, and they will wail at one another and be amazed; and their countenance shall change like a flame. Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, a day that cannot be averted, a day of anger and wrath, to make all the inhabited world a desert, and to destroy the sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and Orion and all the ornament of heaven will not give their light. It will be dark when the sun goes forth, and the moon will not give its light. “I will command evils for all the inhabited world and the ungodly because of their sins, and I will destroy the insolence of the lawless and humble the haughtiness of the arrogant. Those left behind will be more valuable than fine gold tried in the fire, and a man more precious than the stone of Ophir. For heaven will be angry, and the earth will be shaken from its foundations because of the fierce anger of the Lord of hosts, in the day His anger comes.” [SAAS] |
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Prokeimenon. Grave Mode. |
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Psalm 58 (59). |
Rescue me from my enemies, O God. |
O God, You are my protector; You are my mercy, O my God. [SAAS] |
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The Readings from Vespers |
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Prokeimenon. Mode 4. |
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Psalm 59 (60). |
Give us help from affliction, for the salvation of man is useless. |
O God, You drove us off and destroyed us. [SAAS] |
The reading is from the book of Genesis. |
DEACON |
Wisdom. Let us be attentive. |
READER |
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Gn 8:4-21 |
Then the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen. So it came to pass, at the end of forty days, Noah opened the window of the ark he had made. Then he sent out a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters dried up from the earth. He also sent out from himself a dove, to see if the waters had receded from the face of the ground. But the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself in the ark. Then he waited yet another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. The dove returned to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew the waters had receded from the earth. So he waited yet another seven days and again sent out the dove; however, she did not return to him any more. And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year of Noah’s life, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed, the surface of the ground was dry. Now in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried. Then the Lord God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and their wives with you. Also, bring out with you every living thing of all flesh: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, so they may abound on the earth, and increase and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out, along with his wife and his sons and their wives. Every animal, every bird, and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth, according to their kind, went out of the ark. Then Noah built an altar to God, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered whole burnt offerings on the altar. So the Lord God smelled a sweet aroma. [SAAS] |
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Prokeimenon. Mode pl. 2. |
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Psalm 60 (61). |
Hear my supplication, O God; attend to my prayer. |
So I will sing praise to Your name unto ages of ages. [SAAS] |
The reading is from the Proverbs of Solomon. |
DEACON |
Wisdom. Let us be attentive. |
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Pr 10:31-32; 11:1-10 |
The mouth of a righteous man distills wisdom, but the tongue of an unrighteous man utterly destroys. The lips of righteous men distill grace, but the mouth of the ungodly is perverse. Deceitful scales are an abomination before the Lord, but a righteous weight is acceptable to Him. Wherever arrogance enters, there also is dishonor, but the mouth of the humble meditates on wisdom. When a righteous man dies, he leaves regret, but the destruction of the ungodly is immediate and brings joy. Righteousness cuts straight and blameless paths, but ungodliness embraces wrongdoing. The righteousness of upright men delivers them, but lawless men are taken to their destruction. When a righteous man dies, his hope does not perish, but the boast of the ungodly perishes. A righteous man escapes from a snare, but the ungodly man is handed over in his place. There is a snare for citizens in the mouth of the ungodly, but the perception of the righteous is prosperous. A city stays upright in the good things of the righteous, but it is razed to the ground by the mouths of the ungodly. A man in need of discernment treats citizens with contempt, but a man of discernment keeps quiet. [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 April 5 we commemorate the holy martyrs Claudius, Diodoros, Victor, Victorinus, Pappias, Serapion, and Nikephoros. |
On this day we also commemorate our devout mother Theodora of Thessaloniki. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Theodora and Didymos. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyr Thermos. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy women, a Lady and her Servant. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyr Pompey. |
On this day, Saint Zeno died after they smeared him with pitch, threw him into fire, and ran him through with a spear while he was in the fire. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy martyrs Maximus and Terence. |
On this day we also commemorate the holy five young women martyrs of Lesbos. |
On this day St. George the Neomartyr, who contested in New Ephesus in the year 1801, died by the sword. |
By the intercessions of Your saints, Christ our God, have mercy on us. Amen. |
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Fasting Rule |
Strict: Refrain from meat, fish, oil, dairy, and eggs. |
It is a weekday in Lent. |