Thursday, December 17, 2048

Thursday of the 30th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastJulian: December 4

Epistle

Hebrews 10.35-11.7

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10:35Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.Log in to add notes

10:36For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.Log in to add notes

10:37For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.Log in to add notes

10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.Log in to add notes

10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.Log in to add notes

11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.Log in to add notes

11:2For by it the elders obtained a good report.Log in to add notes

11:3Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.Log in to add notes

11:4By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.Log in to add notes

11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.Log in to add notes

11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.Log in to add notes

11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.Log in to add notes

Epistle — St Alexander

Hebrews 13.7-16

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7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.Log in to add notes

8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.Log in to add notes

9Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.Log in to add notes

10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.Log in to add notes

11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.Log in to add notes

12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.Log in to add notes

13Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.Log in to add notes

14For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.Log in to add notes

15By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.Log in to add notes

16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 20.9-18

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9Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.Log in to add notes

10And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.Log in to add notes

11And again he sent another servant: and they beat him also, and entreated him shamefully, and sent him away empty.Log in to add notes

12And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.Log in to add notes

13Then said the lord of the vineyard, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son: it may be they will reverence him when they see him.Log in to add notes

14But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.Log in to add notes

15So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?Log in to add notes

16He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.Log in to add notes

17And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?Log in to add notes

18Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.Log in to add notes

Gospel — St Alexander

Luke 12.32-40

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32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.Log in to add notes

33Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.Log in to add notes

34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.Log in to add notes

35Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;Log in to add notes

36And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.Log in to add notes

37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.Log in to add notes

38And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.Log in to add notes

39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.Log in to add notes

40Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.Log in to add notes