Feast of the Glorious Epiphany of our Lord
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 03/15-22: “As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, ‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.’So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people. But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done, added to them all by shutting up John in prison. Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.’
عيد الغطاس/عمادة السيد المسيح
انجيل القديس مرقص 1/01-11/بشارة يسوع المسيح ابن الله، بدأت كما كتب النبـي إشعيا: ((ها أنا أرسل رسولي قدامك ليهيـئ طريقك صوت صارخ في البرية:هيئوا طريق الرب،واجعلو سبله مستقيمة)). فظهر يوحنا المعمدان في البرية يدعو الناس إلى معمودية التوبة لتغفر خطاياهم. وكانوا يخرجون إليه من جميع بلاد اليهودية وأورشليم فيعمدهم في نهر الأردن، معترفين بخطاياهم. وكان يوحنا يلبس ثوبا من وبر الجمال، وعلى وسطه حزام من جلد، ويقتات من الجراد والعسل البري. وكان يبشر فيقول: ((يجيء بعدي من هو أقوى مني. من لا أحسب نفسي أهلا لأن أنحني وأحل رباط حذائه.أنا عمدتكم بالماء، وأما هو فيعمدكم بالروح القدس)). وفي تلك الأيام جاء يسوع من النـاصرة التي في الجليل، وتعمد على يد يوحنا في نهر الأردن. ولما صعد يسوع من الماء رأى السماوات تنفتـح والروح القدس ينزل عليه كأنه حمامة. وقال صوت من السماء: ((أنت ابني الحبـيب، بك رضيت)).
Baptism Of Jesus/Epiphany
Mark/01/01-11/ The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ (the Son of God).
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: 3 “Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.'”John (the) Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins.John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. 4 He fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the holy Spirit.”It happened in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John.
On coming up out of the water he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit, like a dove, descending upon him.And a voice came from the heavens, “You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.” At once the Spirit drove him out into the desert, and he remained in the desert for forty days, tempted by Satan. He was among wild beasts, and the angels ministered to him.
