Thursday, August 7, 2059

Thursday of the 7th week after Pentecost

Fasting: No fastDoxologyJulian: July 25

Epistle

1 Corinthians 7.24-35

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24Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.Log in to add notes

25Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.Log in to add notes

26I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.Log in to add notes

27Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.Log in to add notes

28But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.Log in to add notes

29But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;Log in to add notes

30And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;Log in to add notes

31And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.Log in to add notes

32But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:Log in to add notes

33But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.Log in to add notes

34There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.Log in to add notes

35And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.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 15.12-21

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12Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?Log in to add notes

13But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.Log in to add notes

14Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.Log in to add notes

15Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.Log in to add notes

16And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?Log in to add notes

17Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?Log in to add notes

18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.Log in to add notes

19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:Log in to add notes

20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.Log in to add notes

21Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon.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