Thursday, December 5, 2002

Thursday of the 24th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: November 22

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 5.1-8

Read in context

1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.Log in to add notes

2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.Log in to add notes

3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.Log in to add notes

4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.Log in to add notes

5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.Log in to add notes

6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.Log in to add notes

7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.Log in to add notes

8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 18.31-34

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31Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.Log in to add notes

32For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:Log in to add notes

33And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.Log in to add notes

34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.Log in to add notes