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| "The Two Women at the Mill" -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: 2 John
1: 4 - 9
4
I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children following the truth,
just as we have been commanded by the Father.
5
And now I beg you, lady, not as though I were writing you a new
commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning, that we love
one another.
6
And this is love, that we follow his commandments; this is the
commandment, as you have heard from the beginning, that you follow
love.
7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not
acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is
the deceiver and the antichrist.
8
Look to yourselves, that you may not lose what you have worked for,
but may win a full reward.
9
Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ
does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father
and the Son.
PSALM:
Psalms 119:
1 - 2, 10 - 11, 17 - 18
1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the
LORD!
2
Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their
whole heart,
10
With my whole heart I seek thee; let me not wander from thy
commandments!
11
I have laid up thy word in my heart, that I might not sin against
thee.
17
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live and observe thy
word.
18
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
GOSPEL:
Luke 17:
26 - 37
26
As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son
of man.
27
They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage,
until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and
destroyed them all.
28
Likewise as it was in the days of Lot -- they ate, they drank, they
bought, they sold, they planted, they built,
29
but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom fire and sulphur rained
from heaven and destroyed them all --
30
so will it be on the day when the Son of man is revealed.
31
On that day, let him who is on the housetop, with his goods in the
house, not come down to take them away; and likewise let him who is
in the field not turn back.
32
Remember Lot's wife.
33
Whoever seeks to gain his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life will preserve it.
34
I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be
taken and the other left.
35
There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the
other left."
37
And they said to him, "Where, Lord?" He said to them,
"Where the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together."
