Friday, February 10, 2012

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: January 28

Epistle

1 John 2.7-17

Read in context

7Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.Log in to add notes

8Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.Log in to add notes

9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.Log in to add notes

10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.Log in to add notes

11But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.Log in to add notes

12I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.Log in to add notes

13I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.Log in to add notes

14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.Log in to add notes

15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.Log in to add notes

16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.Log in to add notes

17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Mark 14.3-9

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3And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.Log in to add notes

4And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?Log in to add notes

5For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.Log in to add notes

6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.Log in to add notes

7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.Log in to add notes

8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.Log in to add notes

9Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.Log in to add notes