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| "The Swine Driven into the Sea" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Hebrews
11: 32 - 40
32
And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of
Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:
33
Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions,
34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword,
recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to
flight the armies of foreigners.
35
Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were
racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better
resurrection.
36
And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands
and prisons.
37
They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were
put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in
goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:
38
Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains
and in dens and in caves of the earth.
39
And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, received not
the promise:
40
God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be
perfected without us.
PSALM:
Psalms
31:
20 - 24
20
O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou
hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them
that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.
21
hou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance
of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle form the
contradiction of tongues.
22
Blessed be the Lord, for he hath shewn his wonderful mercy to me in a
fortified city.
23
But I said in the excess of my mind: I am cast away from before thy
eyes. Therefore thou hast heard the voice of my prayer, when I cried
to thee.
24
O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord will require truth,
and will repay them abundantly that act proudly.
GOSPEL:
Mark 5:
1 - 20
1
And they came over the strait of the sea, into the country of the
Gerasens.
2
And as he went out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the
monuments a man with an unclean spirit,
3
Who had his dwelling in the tombs, and no man now could bind him, not
even with chains.
4
For having been often bound with fetters and chains, he had burst the
chains, and broken the fetters in pieces, and no one could tame him.
5
And he was always day and night in the monuments and in the
mountains, crying and cutting himself with stones.
6
And seeing Jesus afar off, he ran and adored him.
7
And crying with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee,
Jesus the Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God that thou
torment me not.
8
For he said unto him: Go out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9
And he asked him: What is thy name? And he saith to him: My name is
Legion, for we are many.
10
And he besought him much, that he would not drive him away out of the
country.
11
And there was there near the mountain a great herd of swine, feeding.
12
And the spirits besought him, saying: Send us into the swine, that we
may enter into them.
13
And Jesus immediately gave them leave. And the unclean spirits going
out, entered into the swine: and the herd with great violence was
carried headlong into the sea, being about two thousand, were stifled
in the sea.
14
And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city and in the
fields. And they went out to see what was done:
15
And they came to Jesus, and they see him that was troubled with the
devil, sitting, clothed, and well in his wits, and they were afraid.
16
And they that had seen it, told them, in what manner he had been
dealt with who had the devil; and concerning the swine.
17
And they began to pray him that he would depart from their coasts.
18
And when he went up into the ship, he that had been troubled with the
devil, began to beseech him that he might be with him.
19
And he admitted him not, but saith him: Go into thy house to thy
friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee,
and hath had mercy thee.
20
And he went his way, and began to publish in Decapolis how great
things Jesus had done for him: and all men wondered.
