Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Wednesday of the 21st week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastDoxologyJulian: September 30

Epistle

Colossians 1.18-23

Read in context

18And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.Log in to add notes

19For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;Log in to add notes

20And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.Log in to add notes

21And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciledLog in to add notes

22In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:Log in to add notes

23If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 5.33-39

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33And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?Log in to add notes

34And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?Log in to add notes

35But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.Log in to add notes

36And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.Log in to add notes

37And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.Log in to add notes

38But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.Log in to add notes

39No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.Log in to add notes