Monday, November 30, 2048

Monday of the 28th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastDoxologyJulian: November 17

Epistle

2 Timothy 2.20-26

Read in context

20But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.Log in to add notes

21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.Log in to add notes

22Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.Log in to add notes

23But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.Log in to add notes

24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,Log in to add notes

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;Log in to add notes

26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 14.12-15

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12Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.Log in to add notes

13But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:Log in to add notes

14And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.Log in to add notes

15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.Log in to add notes