Monday, January 2, 2012

Repose of St. John of Kronstadt

Fasting: No fastPolyeleosJulian: December 20

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 9.42-10.1

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9:42And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.Log in to add notes

9:43And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:Log in to add notes

9:44Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.Log in to add notes

9:45And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:Log in to add notes

9:46Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.Log in to add notes

9:47And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:Log in to add notes

9:48Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.Log in to add notes

9:49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.Log in to add notes

9:50Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.Log in to add notes

10:1And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.Log in to add notes