FIRST
READING: Colossians
1: 15 - 20
15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every
creature:
16
For in him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible
and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him and in him.
17
And he is before all, and by him all things consist.
18
And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
19
Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness
should dwell;
20
And through him to reconcile all things unto himself, making peace
through the blood of his cross, both as to the things that are on
earth, and the things that are in heaven.
PSALM:
Psalms 100:
1 - 5
1
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth:
2
serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with
exceeding great joy.
3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We
are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
4
Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and
give glory to him. Praise ye his name:
5
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to
generation and generation.
GOSPEL:
Luke 5:
33 - 39
33
And they said to him: Why do the disciples of John fast often, and
make prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees in like manner; but
thine eat and drink?
34
To whom he said: Can you make the children of the bridegroom fast,
whilst the bridegroom is with them?
35
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from
them, then shall they fast in those days.
36
And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece
from a new garment upon an old garment; otherwise he both rendeth the
new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.
37
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine
will break the bottles, and it will be spilled, and the bottles will
be lost.
38
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
39
And no man drinking old, hath presently a mind to new: for he saith,
The old is better.
