Baramudah 27, 1743 AM <-> May 5 2027 <->The Readings for today

Wednesday 5 May 2027
27 Baramudah 1743
Readings for Wednesday of first of of the Holy Fifty Days

Vespers Psalm & Gospel

From the Psalms of our father David the prophet and the king, may his blessings be with us all. Amen.

Psalms 30 : 5 - 7

⁵	For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning.

⁶	Now in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be moved."

⁷	LORD, by Your favor You have made my mountain stand strong; You hid Your face, and I was troubled.

Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord. Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, unto Him be the glory forever, Amen.

Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to our teacher Saint Matthew the Evangelist. May His Blessings be with us all. Amen.

Matthew 9 : 15 - 17

¹⁵	And Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

¹⁶	No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.

¹⁷	Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."

Glory be to God forever.

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Matins Psalm & Gospel

From the Psalms of our father David the prophet and the king, may his blessings be with us all. Amen.

Psalms 105 : 43,45

⁴³	He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness.

⁴⁵	That they might observe His statutes And keep His laws. Praise the LORD!

Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord. Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, unto Him be the glory forever, Amen.

Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to our teacher Saint John the Evangelist. May His Blessings be with us all. Amen.

John 1 : 9 - 15

⁹	That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

¹⁰	He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

¹¹	He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

¹²	But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

¹³	who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

¹⁴	And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵	John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, "This was He of whom I said, "He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me."'

Glory be to God forever.

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Divine Liturgy

Pauline Epistle

Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God. A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to the Corinthians.
May his blessings be with us. Amen.

1 Corinthians 15 : 50 - 58

⁵⁰	Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁵¹	Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed--

⁵²	in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

⁵³	For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

⁵⁴	So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

⁵⁵	"O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"

⁵⁶	The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.

⁵⁷	But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

⁵⁸	Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

The grace of God the Father be with you all. Amen.

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Catholic Epistle

A Reading from Epistle of St. Peter . May his blessings be upon us. Amen.

1 Peter 1 : 10 - 21

¹⁰	Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

¹¹	searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.

¹²	To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven--things which angels desire to look into.

¹³	Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

¹⁴	as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance;

¹⁵	but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

¹⁶	because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

¹⁷	And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;

¹⁸	knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

¹⁹	but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.

²⁰	He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you

²¹	who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. The world passes away, and its desires; but he who does the will of God abides forever. Amen.

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Acts of the Apostles

The Acts of our fathers the apostles, may their blessings be with us. Amen.

Acts 4 : 1 - 13

¹	Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

²	being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

³	And they laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.

⁴	However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

⁵	And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes,

⁶	as well as Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

⁷	And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, "By what power or by what name have you done this?"

⁸	Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders of Israel:

⁹	If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

¹⁰	let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole.

¹¹	This is the "stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.'

¹²	Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."

¹³	Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

The word of the Lord shall grow, multiply, be mighty, and be confirmed, in the holy Church of God. Amen.

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Divine Liturgy Psalm & Gospel

From the Psalms of our father David the prophet and the king, may his blessings be with us all. Amen.

Psalms 106 : 1 - 2

¹	Praise the LORD! Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.

²	Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? Who can declare all His praise?

Blessed is he who comes in the Name of the Lord. Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, unto Him be the glory forever, Amen.

Stand in the fear of God and listen to the Holy Gospel. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to our teacher Saint John the Evangelist. May His Blessings be with us all. Amen.

John 2 : 12 - 25

¹²	After this He went down to Capernaum, He, His mother, His brothers, and His disciples; and they did not stay there many days.

¹³	Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

¹⁴	And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business.

¹⁵	When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables.

¹⁶	And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!"

¹⁷	Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up."

¹⁸	So the Jews answered and said to Him, "What sign do You show to us, since You do these things?"

¹⁹	Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

²⁰	Then the Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?"

²¹	But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

²²	Therefore, when He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this to them; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

²³	Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name when they saw the signs which He did.

²⁴	But Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men,

²⁵	and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.

Glory be to God forever.

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Not to be read in the Church during this time of the year.

Synaxarium

Day 27 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 Twenty-Seventh Day of the Blessed Month of Baramudah

Martyrdom of St.Boctor Ebn Romanus

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On this day, the honorable Saint Boctor (Victor) Ebn Romanus, the minister of Emperor Diocletian, was martyred. His mother Martha had reared him in the Christian ethics. He was promoted in the ranks in the kingdom until he became the third in succession. He was then twenty years old. He prayed and fasted much, visited the prisoners and assisted the poor and needy. When they cut off the head of St. Theodata, the mother of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, no one dared to bury her because they feared the Emperor. This Saint went forth and took the body, shrouded it, then buried her, not caring about the Emperor's order. St. Boctor often admonished his father for worshipping the idols, so his father accused him before the Emperor. The Emperor had him brought and asked him to worship the idols to obey the imperial order. The saint took off his soldier girdle and threw it in his face saying: "Take your gift that you gave me." His father suggested to the Emperor to send him to Alexandria to be tortured there. On their way, his mother bid him farewell, crying, and he asked her to care for the poor, the widows, and the lonely. When he arrived to Alexandria, the governor Armanius tortured him many tortures, then he sent him to the governor of Ansena, who tortured him also, then cut off his tongue and plucked out his eyes. The Lord strengthened and comforted him every time. There was a fifteen years old girl who was watching his torture from the window of her house. She saw a crown coming down over his head. She confessed that before the governor and all those who were present. The Governor ordered her head to be cut off and also the head of St. Boctor. They received the crown of life in the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a district in Alexandria until now known as El Boctoriah (Victoria), named after this Saint, because probably there was a church on his name in this district.

May His prayers be with us and Glory be to our God forever. Amen.

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