Monday, December 28, 2009

Monday of the 30th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: December 15

Epistle

Hebrews 8.7-13

Read in context

7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.Log in to add notes

8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:Log in to add notes

9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.Log in to add notes

10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:Log in to add notes

11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.Log in to add notes

12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.Log in to add notes

13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 8.11-21

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11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.Log in to add notes

12And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.Log in to add notes

13And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.Log in to add notes

14Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.Log in to add notes

15And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.Log in to add notes

16And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.Log in to add notes

17And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?Log in to add notes

18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?Log in to add notes

19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.Log in to add notes

20And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.Log in to add notes

21And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?Log in to add notes