FIRST
READING:
1 Corinthians
1: 1 - 9
1
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and
Sosthenes a brother,
2
To the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified
in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and ours.
3
Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus
Christ.
4
I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is
given you in Christ Jesus,
5
That in all things you are made rich in him, in all utterance, and in
all knowledge;
6
As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you,
7
So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the
manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ.
8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9
God is faithful: by whom you are called unto the fellowship of his
Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
PSALM:
Psalms 145:
2 - 7
2
Every day I will bless thee: and I will praise thy name for ever;
yea, for ever and ever.
3
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised: and of his greatness
there is no end.
4
Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall
declare thy power.
5
They shall speak of the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness:
and shall tell thy wondrous works.
6
And they shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and shall
declare thy greatness.
7
They shall publish the memory of the abundance of thy sweetness: and
shall rejoice in thy justice.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 24:
42 - 51
42
Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will
come.
43
But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour
the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer
his house to be broken open.
44
Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the
Son of man will come.
45
Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord
hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season.
46
Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find
so doing.
47
Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods.
48
But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a
coming:
49
And shall begin to strike his fellow servants, and shall eat and
drink with drunkards:
50
The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not, and
at an hour that he knoweth not:
51
And shall separate him, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
