Daily Readings for January 3

A Reading from Origin (Genesis) 1:26-28

26 God said, "Let's make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

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Feast of the Most Holy Trinity

On January 3, the Antiochian Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church sets aside the day to honor the Most Holy Trinity—the One God in Three Persons Who has existed from before the beginning of all things seen and unseen, known and unknown; the One God Who is composed of the three centers of consciousness, being the uncreated and unbegotten eternal Father; the uncreated yet eternally begotten Son outside of time; and the uncreated yet eternally proceeding Holy Spirit through from outside of time which all are imbued by the power given to the Son from the Father Who sits on the One Throne of Judgment, ontologically and economically wholly.

By the ontological and economical dogmatic understanding of the Most Holy and Triune God, the fullness of this Divine Mystery has been preserved and taught as such by the Great and Holy Church whereas the disciples of the Pharisees and Zealots disparaged and wrote God away in rejection of the Christ, and their failed political and false messianic revolts after His bodily ascension to the Throne by mischaracterizing the Shema Yisrael.