The Morning Offering

Pacific Lutheran University students visit the Monastery

Friday

March 18, 2011 / March 5, 2011

Second Week of the Great Lent. Tone one.
Great Lent. By Monastic Charter: Strict Fast (Bread, Vegetables, Fruits)

Martyr Conon of Isauria (2nd c.).
St. Nicholas (1919).
New Hieromartyr John priest and New Hieromartyrs Mardarius and Theopane (1938).
St. Nicholas (Velimirovich), bishop of Ochrid and Zhicha, Serbia (1956) (Serbia).
Translation of the relics (1463) of St. Theodore, prince of Smolensk and Yaroslav (1299), and his children Sts. David (1321) and Constantine.
Monk-martyr Adrian, abbot of Poshekhonye (1550) and his fellow-ascetic St. Leonidas (1549).
Martyr Onisius of Isauria (2nd c.).
Martyr Conon the Gardener of Pamphylia (251).
Virgin-martyr Irais (Rhais) of Antinoe in Egypt (3rd c.) and with her Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt.
Martyr Eulogius of Palestine.
Martyr Eulampius of Palestine.
Venerable Mark the Faster of Egypt (5th c.).
Venerable Hesychius the Faster of Bithynia (790).
"Nurtured Up-Bringing" Icon of the Mother of God.
New Martyr John the Bulgarian (Mt. Athos), at Constantinople (1784) (Greek).
Martyr Archelaus and 152 Martyrs in Egypt.
St. Kieran (Ciaran) of Saigher, Munster (Ireland) (5th-6th c.) (Celtic & British).
St. Theophilus, bishop of Caesaria in Palestine (200).
St. Virgil, archbishop of Aries (618).
Sts. Basil (1249) and Constantine (1257), princes of Yaroslavl.
New Hieromartyr Parthenius, Bishop of Didymoteichon in Thrace (1805).
New Martyr George of Rapsana (1818).
St. Piran, mont of Perranporth.

Abbot Tryphon, together with students from PLU

Quote for the Day:

“Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue."

Saint John Chrysostom

                                            

Scripture Readings for the Day:

Isaiah 7:1-15

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

 ¹ Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but could not prevail against it. ² And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.
³ Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field, ⁴ and say to him: ‘Take heed, and be quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. ⁵ Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, ⁶ “Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— ⁷ thus says the Lord GOD:


      “ It shall not stand,
      Nor shall it come to pass.
       ⁸ For the head of Syria is Damascus,
      And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
      Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken,
      So that it will not be a people.
       ⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
      And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
      If you will not believe,
      Surely you shall not be established.”’”

The Immanuel Prophecy

¹⁰ Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ¹¹ “Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.”
¹² But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!”
¹³ Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also? ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. ¹⁵ Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.
 
Genesis 5:32-6:8

³² And Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah begot Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6

The Wickedness and Judgment of Man

 ¹ Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, ² that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose.
³ And the LORD said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.” ⁴ There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
⁵ Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. ⁶ And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. ⁷ So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” ⁸ But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
 
Proverbs 6:20-7:1

Beware of Adultery

   
 ²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command,
      And do not forsake the law of your mother.
       ²¹ Bind them continually upon your heart;
      Tie them around your neck.
       ²² When you roam, they will lead you;
      When you sleep, they will keep you;
      And when you awake, they will speak with you.
       ²³ For the commandment is a lamp,
      And the law a light;
      Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
       ²⁴ To keep you from the evil woman,
      From the flattering tongue of a seductress.
       ²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
      Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
       ²⁶ For by means of a harlot
      A man is reduced to a crust of bread;
      And an adulteress will prey upon his precious life.
       ²⁷ Can a man take fire to his bosom,
      And his clothes not be burned?
       ²⁸ Can one walk on hot coals,
      And his feet not be seared?
       ²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
      Whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
       ³⁰ People do not despise a thief
      If he steals to satisfy himself when he is starving.
       ³¹ Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold;
      He may have to give up all the substance of his house.
       ³² Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding;
      He who does so destroys his own soul.
       ³³ Wounds and dishonor he will get,
      And his reproach will not be wiped away.
       ³⁴ For jealousy is a husband’s fury;
      Therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
       ³⁵ He will accept no recompense,
      Nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.

Proverbs 7

 ¹ My son, keep my words,
      And treasure my commands within you.

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