LECTIONARY - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

falsely accuse your good conversation
in Christ. For it is better, if the will of
God be so, that ye suffer for well
doing, than for evil doing. For Christ
also hath once suffered for sins, the
just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the
flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By
which also he went and preached unto
the spirits in prison; Which sometime
were disobedient, when once the
longsuffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was a
preparing, wherein few, that is, eight
souls were saved by water. The like
figure whereunto even baptism doth
also now save us (not the putting
away of the filth of the flesh, but the
answer of a good conscience toward
God,) by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ: Who is gone into heaven, and
is on the right hand of God; angels
and authorities and powers being
made subject unto him.
Do not love the world, nor the things which are in the world. The world shall pass away and all its desires; but he
who does the will of God shall abide forever. Amen.
The Praxis
Acts 2:22-28
A chapter from the Acts of our fathers the pure Apostles, who were invested with the grace of the Holy Spirit. Their
blessing be with us all. Amen.
Ye men of Israel, hear these
words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man
approved of God among you by
miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of
you, as ye yourselves also know:
Him, being delivered by the
determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, ye have taken,
and by wicked hands have crucified
and slain: Whom God hath raised up,
having loosed the pains of death:
because it was not possible that he
The Feast of the Ressurection
The word of the Lord abides in this church and in every church. Amen.
should be holden of it. For David
speaketh concerning him, I foresaw
the Lord always before my face, for he
is on my right hand, that I should not
be moved: Therefore did my heart
rejoice, and my tongue was glad;
moreover also my flesh shall rest in
hope: Because thou wilt not leave my
soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the
ways of life; thou shalt make me full
of joy with thy countenance.
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