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| "Two or Three Gathered In My Name" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Ezekiel
33: 7-9
7
So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of
Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt
tell it them from me.
8
When I say to the wicked: O wicked man, thou shalt surely die: if
thou dost not speak to warn the wicked man from his way: that wicked
man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy
hand.
9
But if thou tell the wicked man, that he may be converted from his
ways, and he be not converted from his way: he shall die in his
iniquity: but thou hast delivered thy soul.
PSALM:
Psalms 95:
1-2, 6-9
1
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our
saviour.
2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful
noise to him with psalms.
6
Come let us adore and fall down: and weep before the Lord that made
us.
7
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and
the sheep of his hand.
8
Today if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts:
9
As in the provocation, according to the day of temptation in the
wilderness: where your fathers tempted me, they proved me, and saw my
works.
SECOND
READING: Romans
13: 8-10
8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his
neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.
9
For Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt
not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet:
and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the
fulfilling of the law.
GOSPEL:
Matthew 18: 15-20
15
But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him
between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain
thy brother.
16
And if he will not hear thee, take with thee one or two more: that in
the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may stand.
17
And if he will not hear them: tell the church. And if he will not
hear the church, let him be to thee as the heathen and publican.
18
Amen I say to you, whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be
bound also in heaven; and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth,
shall be loosed also in heaven.
19
Again I say to you, that if two of you shall consent upon earth,
concerning any thing whatsoever they shall ask, it shall be done to
them by my Father who is in heaven.
20
For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there
am I in the midst of them.
