FIRST
READING: Ephesians
1: 15 - 23
15
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus
and your love toward all the saints,
16
I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give
you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is
the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his
glorious inheritance in the saints,
19
and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power in us who
believe, according to the working of his great might
20
which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and
made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above
every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which
is to come;
22
and he has put all things under his feet and has made him the head
over all things for the church,
23
which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all.
PSALM:
Psalms 8:
2 - 7
2
by the mouth of babes and infants, thou hast founded a bulwark
because of thy foes, to still the enemy and the avenger.
3
When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which thou hast established;
4
what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that
thou dost care for him?
5
Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with
glory and honor.
6
Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast
put all things under his feet,
7
all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
GOSPEL:
Luke 12:
8 - 12
8
"And I tell you, every one who acknowledges me before men, the
Son of man also will acknowledge before the angels of God;
9
but he who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of
God.
10
And every one who speaks a word against the Son of man will be
forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be
forgiven.
11
And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the
authorities, do not be anxious how or what you are to answer or what
you are to say;
12
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought
to say."
