------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Readings of The Monday of the Ninevites' Fast ********************************************* Season : Ninevites' Fast Tune : Lenten Strict Abstinence Verse of the Day: "The men of Nineveh will rise in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here." (Matthew 12:41) Pauline Epistle: Romans 6:17-23 "For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness." Catholic Epistle: Jude 1:1-13 "For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." Praxis: Acts 2:38-47 "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship..." Synexarion: << Varies Annually >> Psalm: 129:3,4 "If Thou shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord; O Lord, who shall stand? For with Thee there is forgiveness. My soul hath hoped in the Lord." Alleluia! Gospel: Matthew 12:35-45 "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Readings of Tuesday of Ninevites' Fast ****************************************** Season : Ninevites' Fast Tune : Lenten Strict Abstinence Verse of the Day: "For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation." (Luke 11:30) Pauline Epistle: Colossians 1:21-29 "And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled..." Catholic Epistle: 1 Peter 4:3-11 "For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles--when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries." Praxis: Acts 17:30-34 "Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent..." Synexarion: << Varies Annually >> Psalm: 84:2,3 "Thou hast forgiven the iniquities of Thy people; Thou hast covered all their sins. Thou hast made all Thy wrath to cease; Thou turned back from the wrath of Thine anger." Alleluia! Gospel: Luke 11:29-36 "This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reading of Wednesday of Ninevites' Fast *************************************** Tune : Lenten Strict Abstinence Verse of the Day: "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me; for I am meek, and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest fro your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." (Matthew 11:29,30) From Matins' Gospel Pauline Epistle: Ephesians 1:12-22 "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him form the dead, and set him at his own right hand in heavenly places. Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come." Catholic Epistle: I John 2:12-17 "Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him...And the world passes away, and the lust thereof; but he that does the will of God abides forever." Praxis: Acts 15:12-20 "Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God." Synexarion: << Varies Annually >> Psalm: 31:1,5 "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgression unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah." Alleluia! Gospel: Matthew 15:32-16:4 "A wicked and adulterous generation seeking after a sign; and there shall be no sign given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Feast of Ninevites ********************** Season : Annual Tune : Watos Breaking of Ninevites Fast Verse of the Day: "They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary." (Psalm 67:24) From Matins' Psalm Pauline Epistle: Colossians 4:2-18 "Pray also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak of the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds." Catholic Epistle: I Peter 3:15-22 "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear." Praxis: Acts 1:1-14 "But you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit has come upon you: and you shall be withnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all of Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." Synexarion: << Varies Annually >> Psalm: 95:2,3 "Sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord all the earth. Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; show forth his salvation from day to day." Alleluia! Gospel: Luke 10:1-20 "Therefore he said unto them, 'The harvest is truly great, but the laborers are few. Pray, therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest.'" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------