Lenten Lectionary Á-? The Second Week of Great Lent - Page of 24
Monday in the Second Week - At Vespers
Reader:
The Prokeimenon, Psalm 23, in the 1st Tone:
The
Lord strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in war.
Stichos:
The earth is the LordÁ-?s and the fullness thereof.
Deacon:
Wisdom!
Reader:
The reading
is from Genesis.
Deacon:
Let us
attend!
Gen 3:21 - 4:7
Reader:
21.
And Adam called the name of his wife Life,
because she was the mother of all living.
22.
And the Lord
God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and
clothed them.
23.
And God said, Behold, Adam is become as
one of us, to know good and evil and now lest at any time
he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and
eat, and so he shall live for ever --
24.
So the Lord God sent
him forth out of the garden of Delight to cultivate the
ground out of which he was taken.
25.
And he cast out
Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of
Delight, and stationed the cherubs and the fiery sword that
turns about to keep the way of the tree of life.
1.
And Adam
knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth
Cain and said I have gained a man through God.
2.
And she
again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of
sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
3.
And it was so
after some time that Cain brought of the fruits of the earth
a sacrifice to the Lord.
4.
And Abel also brought of the
firstborn of his sheep and of his fatlings and God looked
upon Abel and his gifts,
5.
but Cain and his sacrifices he
regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his