Tuesday, August 7, 2040

Tuesday of the 7th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastDoxologyJulian: July 25

Epistle

1 Corinthians 6.20-7.12

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6:20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.Log in to add notes

7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.Log in to add notes

7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.Log in to add notes

7:3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.Log in to add notes

7:4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.Log in to add notes

7:5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.Log in to add notes

7:6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.Log in to add notes

7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.Log in to add notes

7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.Log in to add notes

7:9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.Log in to add notes

7:10And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:Log in to add notes

7:11But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.Log in to add notes

7:12But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.Log in to add notes

Epistle — St Anna

Galatians 4.22-31

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22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.Log in to add notes

23But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.Log in to add notes

24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.Log in to add notes

25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.Log in to add notes

26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.Log in to add notes

27For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.Log in to add notes

28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.Log in to add notes

29But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.Log in to add notes

30Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.Log in to add notes

31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Matthew 14.1-13

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1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,Log in to add notes

2And said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.Log in to add notes

3For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.Log in to add notes

4For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.Log in to add notes

5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.Log in to add notes

6But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.Log in to add notes

7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.Log in to add notes

8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.Log in to add notes

9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.Log in to add notes

10And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.Log in to add notes

11And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.Log in to add notes

12And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.Log in to add notes

13When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.Log in to add notes

Gospel — St Anna

Luke 8.16-21

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16No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.Log in to add notes

17For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.Log in to add notes

18Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.Log in to add notes

19Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.Log in to add notes

20And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.Log in to add notes

21And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.Log in to add notes