'Daily Bread'
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Daily Scripture Reading for Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Epistle Reading: Hebrews 10:1-18
1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins.
3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
Gospel Reading: Mark 8:30-34
30 Then He strictly warned them that they should tell no one about Him.
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
32 He spoke this word openly. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.
Martyrs Athanasia and her daughters: Theoctiste, Theodotia, and Eudoxia, at Canopus in Egypt (311)
The Christian woman Athanasia and her three young daughters were arrested because they were Christians. Theoctiste was fifteen; Theodota, was thirteen; and Eudoxia, was eleven. Saints Cyrus and John hastened to the prison to help them, for they were concerned that the women might renounce Christ when faced with torture.
Appalachian Orthodox Chant
ENJOY this unique rendition of ‘For God is With Us’ sung by two seminarians in an Appalachian bluegrass style and edited to sound as if it was recorded in a large cathedral.
This week’s calendar reminders:
Monday 1/29: Matins 8:30 a.m.
Tuesday 1/30: no services or events
Wednesday 1/31: no services or events
Thursday 2/1: No Matins; Festal Vesperal Liturgy 6:30 p.m. (Meeting of Christ in the Temple)
Friday 2/2: Festal Matins 8:30 a.m.
Saturday 2/3: Great Vespers 6 p.m.
Sunday 2/4: Divine Liturgy 9:15 a.m.
