document.write('<h2>Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent; Repose St Innocent, Metr. Moscow and Apostle to Americas</h2><h3>Gen 15.1-15 (Vespers)</h3>The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, &ldquo;Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.&rdquo; But Abram said, &ldquo;Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?&rdquo; Then Abram said, &ldquo;Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!&rdquo; And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, &ldquo;This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.&rdquo; Then He brought him outside and said, &ldquo;Look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them.&rdquo; And He said to him, &ldquo;So shall your descendants be.&rdquo; And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. Then He said to him, &ldquo;I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.&rdquo; And he said, &ldquo;Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?&rdquo; So He said to him, &ldquo;Bring Me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.&rdquo; Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. Then He said to Abram: &ldquo;Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. &ldquo;And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. &ldquo;Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.&rdquo;<p /><h3>Prov 15.7-19 (Vespers)</h3>The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, But the heart of the fool does not do so. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But the prayer of the upright is His delight. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, But He loves him who follows righteousness. Harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way, And he who hates correction will die. Hell and Destruction are before the Lord; So how much more the hearts of the sons of men. A scoffer does not love one who corrects him, Nor will he go to the wise. A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance, But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness. All the days of the afflicted are evil, But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast. Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, Than great treasure with trouble. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred. A wrathful man stirs up strife, But he who is slow to anger allays contention. The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, But the way of the upright is a highway.<p /><h3>Heb 7.26-8.2 (Epistle&mdash;St Innocent)</h3>Brethren, such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the heavens; who does not need daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the people&rsquo;s, for this He did once for all when He offered up Himself. For the law appoints as high priests men who have weakness, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints the Son who has been perfected forever. Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.<p /><h3>John 10.9-16 (Gospel&mdash;St Innocent)</h3>The Lord said to the Jews that came to Him: I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.<p />');