Daily Scripture

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Sunday, June 17, 2040

Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

Fasting: No fastJulian: June 4

Vespers

Genesis 14.14-20

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14And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.Log in to add notes

15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.Log in to add notes

16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.Log in to add notes

17And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.Log in to add notes

18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.Log in to add notes

19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:Log in to add notes

20And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Deuteronomy 1.8-11; Deuteronomy 1.15-17

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8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.Log in to add notes

9And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:Log in to add notes

10The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.Log in to add notes

11(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)Log in to add notes

15So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.Log in to add notes

16And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.Log in to add notes

17Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.Log in to add notes

Vespers

Deuteronomy 10.14-21

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14Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.Log in to add notes

15Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.Log in to add notes

16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.Log in to add notes

17For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:Log in to add notes

18He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.Log in to add notes

19Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.Log in to add notes

20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.Log in to add notes

21He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.Log in to add notes

10th Matins Gospel

John 21.1-14

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1After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.Log in to add notes

2There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.Log in to add notes

3Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.Log in to add notes

4But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.Log in to add notes

5Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.Log in to add notes

6And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.Log in to add notes

7Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher’s coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.Log in to add notes

8And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.Log in to add notes

9As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.Log in to add notes

10Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.Log in to add notes

11Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.Log in to add notes

12Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.Log in to add notes

13Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.Log in to add notes

14This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.Log in to add notes

Epistle

Acts 20.16-18; Acts 20.28-36

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16For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.Log in to add notes

17And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.Log in to add notes

18And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,Log in to add notes

28Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.Log in to add notes

29For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.Log in to add notes

30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.Log in to add notes

31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.Log in to add notes

32And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.Log in to add notes

33I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.Log in to add notes

34Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.Log in to add notes

35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.Log in to add notes

36And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.Log in to add notes

Gospel

John 17.1-13

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1These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:Log in to add notes

2As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.Log in to add notes

3And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.Log in to add notes

4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.Log in to add notes

5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.Log in to add notes

6I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.Log in to add notes

7Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.Log in to add notes

8For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.Log in to add notes

9I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.Log in to add notes

10And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.Log in to add notes

11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.Log in to add notes

12While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.Log in to add notes

13And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.Log in to add notes