'Daily Bread'
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Daily Scripture Reading for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Epistle Reading: Titus 1:5-2:1
5 For this reason I left you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are lacking, and appoint elders in every city as I commanded you –
6 if a man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or insubordination.
7 For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for money,
Gospel Reading: Luke 20:9-18
9 Then He began to tell the people this parable: “A certain man planted a vineyard, leased it to vinedressers, and went into a far country for a long time.
10 Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that they might give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the vinedressers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.
11 Again he sent another servant; and they beat him also, treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.
Saint Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria (444)
Upon the death of Patriarch Theophilus, Cyril was unanimously chosen to the patriarchal throne of the Alexandrian Church. He led the struggle against the spread of the Novatian heresy in Alexandria, which taught that any Christian who had fallen away from the Church during a time of persecution, could not be received back into it.
READ more about the life of St. Cyril.
St. Silouan the Athonite on How to Talk to Heterodox
As the saint reveals in Saint Silouan the Athonite, that in today’s context a polemical approach to those in theological error is not only bound to fail, it is incongruous with the precepts of Christian love and humility — and a detriment to spiritual growth.
READ St. Silouan’s response to a missionary Archimandrite, ‘who was still young and inexperienced, gesticulated with his hands and swayed his whole body, and replied excitedly, “I tell them, ‘Your faith is all wrong, perverted. There is nothing right, and if you don’t repent, there will be no salvation for you.’”
This week’s calendar reminders:
Monday 1/15: Matins 8:30 a.m. ; Steward Meeting 6:30 p.m. (all are welcome)
Tuesday 1/16: no services or events
Wednesday 1/17: no services or events
Thursday 1/18: Matins 8:30 a.m.
Friday 1/19: no services; ‘March for Life’, D.C.
Saturday 1/20: Great Vespers 6 p.m.
Sunday 1/21: Divine Liturgy 9:15 a.m.