Monday, December 10, 2040

Monday of the 25th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastSix-sticheraJulian: November 27

Epistle

2 Thessalonians 1.1-10

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1Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:Log in to add notes

2Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Log in to add notes

3We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;Log in to add notes

4So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:Log in to add notes

5Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:Log in to add notes

6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;Log in to add notes

7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,Log in to add notes

8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:Log in to add notes

9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;Log in to add notes

10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 19.37-44

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37And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;Log in to add notes

38Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.Log in to add notes

39And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.Log in to add notes

40And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.Log in to add notes

41And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,Log in to add notes

42Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.Log in to add notes

43For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,Log in to add notes

44And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.Log in to add notes