7 Baramudah 1741
Readings for Holy Pascha
The Holy Pascha Week of our Good Saviour
Tuesday of the Holy Pascha Week
Season Pascha Week
Tune : Attribis
Strict Abstinence
Theme of the day : Day of teaching Parables in the temple and preaching about the end of the world.
Verse of the Day : Matthew 24:35
First Hour
Exodus 19:1-9Job 23:2-24:25
Hosea 4:1-8
Psalms 120:2,6,7
John 8:21-29
Third Hour
Deuteronomy 8:11-20Sirach 2:1-9
Job 27:1-20
Job 28:1-2
Kings 19:9-14
Psalms 119:154,155
Matthew 23:37-24:2
Sixth Hour
Ezekiel 21:3-13Sirach 4:20-5:2
Isaiah 1:1-9
Psalms 18:48,17
John 8:12-20
Ninth Hour
Genesis 6:5-9:6Proverbs 9:1-11
Isaiah 40:9-30
Daniel 7:9-15
Proverbs 8:1-12
Psalms 25:1,2,3
Matthew 24:3-35
Eleventh Hour
Isaiah 30:25-30Proverbs 6:20-7:4
Psalms 45:6-6;41:1-1
Matthew 25:14-26:2
First Hour of eve of Wednesday
Ezekiel 22:17-22Ezekiel 22:23-29
Psalms 59:16,17
Matthew 22:1-14
Third Hour of eve of Wednesday
Amos 5:18-27Psalms 65:4
Matthew 24:36-51
Sixth Hour of eve of Wednesday
Jeremiah 13:9-14Psalms 102:1,2
Matthew 25:1-13
Ninth Hour of eve of Wednesday
Hosea 9:14-10:2Psalms 22:20-21
Matthew 23:29-36
Eleventh Hour of eve of Wednesday
Wisdom 7:24-30Psalms 57:1
John 11:55-57
Synaxarium
Day 7 of the Blessed Coptic Month of Baramudah.
May God make it always received, year after year, with reassurance and tranquility, while our sins are forgiven by the tender mercies of our God my fathers and brothers. Amen.
The Seventh Day of the Blessed Month of Baramudah
Departure of the Righteous Joachim, the Lord Christ Grandfather
On this day the righteous Joachim (Yonakhir
- Zadok) departed. He was the father of St. Mary, the Theotokos, the mother
of God incarnate. He was of the seed of David, and of the tribe of Judah,
for he was the son of Jotham, the son of Lazarus, the son of Eldad who
ascended up in genealogy to Solomon the king, the son of David whom God
promised that his seed should reign over the children of Israel for ever.
The wife of this righteous man, Hannah was barren, and both of them prayed
and entreated God continually to give them a child. Having accepted their
petition He gave them a good and sweet fruit, which satisfied all the men
of the world, and removed from them the bitterness of servitude, and He
made Joachim worthy to be called the father of the Lord Christ in regard
of His marvelous and wondrous Incarnation. After God had pleased him with
the birth of our Lady, his heart was rejoiced and he offered his offerings,
and the shame had been removed from him, he departed in peace when the
Virgin was three years old.
May his prayers be with us. Amen.
Departure of St.Macrobius
On this day also the saint Anba Macrobius, the son of the governor of the city of Kaw, departed in peace. When Anba Severus, Archbishop of Antioch, was wondering around the cities of Upper Egypt, he came to the city of Kaw and Macrobius ministered unto him. He accompanied Anba Severus in his visit to the monastery of Anba Moses, where he saw from the holiness of the monks, their asceticism and devoutness, made him ask Anba Moses to accept him as a monk. Anba Moses indicated to him the hardship of the monastic life and its difficulties especially he was raised in luxury and family wealth, and the one that slept on silk, could not take the rough life. When Anba Moses saw the insistence of Macrobius on the monastic life he asked him first to resign his job that he took after his father, and to relinquish all his money and possessions. He went to his city Kaw, appointed his brother in his place, returned and put on the monastic garb. When his brothers Paul, Ilias, and Joseph saw what their brother had done, they came to him and became monks by the hands of Anba Moses.
Anba Macrobius built many monasteries and many monks, about a thousand gathered around him, and he also built convents for about a thousand nuns. He used his money to build many places for those that did not desire the monastic life, and he supported those who sought his help. Then he sent to Anba Moses asking to send him brethren to prepare those gathered around him for the monastic life, they came and put on them the monastic garb. Christians from the cities of Assuit, Shatb, and neighboring cities came and gave him many gifts and much money to help him in building the churches and monasteries. He accepted it from them and blessed them. Anba Macrobius increased in virtues, asceticism and giving alms to the weak, needy, widows, orphans and the lonely, beside caring for his monasteries. His alms were from his own money not from that was offered. God granted St. Macrobius the gift of healing, they brought him the sick and he healed them with the power of God and the strength of their faith.
The father the Patriarch Anba Theodosius, heard about him and he wrote to him praising and encouraging him to be steadfast in virtue, asceticism and loving the strangers and asked him to come for the people of Alexandria to be blessed by him. When he came to the Patriarch, he rejoiced with him and called the people of Alexandria to receive the blessing from him, and he ordained him a priest. Macrobius returned to his monastery, the people of Assuit and Shatb received him with songs and hymns until they came to the monastery. Many miracles were performed through his hands, and when he finished his good strife, he departed in peace. Multitudes gathered from Assuit, Shatb, Abu-Sergah, Kaw and the neighboring cities, and his brother Anba Yousab, who was appointed as his successor in running the monasteries in the fear of God, prayed and buried him. The appearance of his body was on the seventh day of the blessed month of Tubah, seven hundred thirty three years after his departure by the hands of the deacon Los El-Talawy the servant of his monastery's church, during the days of Anba Yousab, bishop of Akhmeem and the notable Isaac the scribe of the prince Eiz-Eldeen El-Hamawy. Anba Yousab, bishop of Akhmeem, took the body out of its tomb in the mountain, down to the church of the monastery, where they buried him with hymns and praises.
May his prayers be with us. Amen.
Departure of Saints Agapius, Theodora, and Metruf
On this day also is the commemoration of the departure of Sts. Agapius and Theodora the martyrs, and the commemoration of St. Metruf the spiritual son of Anba Moses the Abbot of El-Baliana monastery.
May their intercession be with us and glory be to God forever. Amen.
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