Friday, November 13, 2099

Friday of the 24th week after Pentecost

Fasting: FastJulian: October 31

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 5.9-13; 1 Thessalonians 5.24-28

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9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,Log in to add notes

10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.Log in to add notes

11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.Log in to add notes

12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;Log in to add notes

13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.Log in to add notes

24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.Log in to add notes

25Brethren, pray for us.Log in to add notes

26Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.Log in to add notes

27I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.Log in to add notes

28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.Log in to add notes

Epistle — St John Kochurov

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 11.23-26

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23He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.Log in to add notes

24When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.Log in to add notes

25And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.Log in to add notes

26Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.Log in to add notes

Gospel — St John Kochurov

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

Gospel — St John Kochurov

John 10.9-16

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9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.Log in to add notes

10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.Log in to add notes

11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.Log in to add notes

12But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.Log in to add notes

13The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Log in to add notes

14I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.Log in to add notes

15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.Log in to add notes

16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.Log in to add notes