'Daily Bread'
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Daily Scripture Reading for Thursday, January 25, 2024
Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:7-11
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
Gospel Reading: John 10:9-16
9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.
10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
St. Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople (389)
Saint Gregory spent six years in Athens studying rhetoric, poetry, geometry, and astronomy. His teachers were the renowned pagan rhetoricians Gymorias and Proeresias. Saint Basil, the future Archbishop of Caesarea (January 1) also studied in Athens with Saint Gregory. They were such close friends that they seemed to be one soul in two bodies.
READ more about the life of St. Gregory.
BEAUTY IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: ST EPHREM THE SYRIAN
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD: INSIGHTS FROM EPHREM THE SYRIAN -- BY SEBASTIAN BROCK
Delivered at Bose conference “Called to Life in Christ” – September 4, 2019, and adapted by permission for the website of the Institute of Sacred Arts, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
Reflecting on the theme of beauty in the Christian life, there is much insight to be gained from St Ephrem the Syrian’s profound theological vision. Particularly as he applies this vision to Genesis 1:27—on human beings being created in the image of God, and the use of mirror imagery in this connection—it is possible to shed some light on Dostoevsky’s famous, but enigmatic, words in his novel The Idiot: “Beauty will save the world.”
This week’s calendar reminders:
Monday 1/22: Matins 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday 1/23: no services or events
Wednesday 1/24: no services or events
Thursday 1/25: Matins 8:30 a.m.
Friday 1/26: Matins 8:30 a.m.
Saturday 1/27: Great Vespers 6 p.m.
Sunday 1/28: Divine Liturgy 9:15 a.m.