Sunday, December 11, 2011

26th Sunday after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: November 28

Epistle

Ephesians 5.8-19

Read in context

8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:Log in to add notes

9(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)Log in to add notes

10Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.Log in to add notes

11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.Log in to add notes

12For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.Log in to add notes

13But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.Log in to add notes

14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.Log in to add notes

15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,Log in to add notes

16Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.Log in to add notes

17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.Log in to add notes

18And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;Log in to add notes

19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 13.10-17

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10And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.Log in to add notes

11And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.Log in to add notes

12And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.Log in to add notes

13And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.Log in to add notes

14And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.Log in to add notes

15The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?Log in to add notes

16And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?Log in to add notes

17And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.Log in to add notes