Saturday, 5 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a watch-tower. Then he leased it to tenants and went to another...
View ArticleSaturday, 5 November 2016 : First Letter to the Corinthians 14,1-5.13-14.20.26.
Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy. For those who speak in a tongue do not speak to other people but to God; for nobody understands them, since they...
View ArticleSunday, 6 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
When Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that the Son of Man is?’ And they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and still...
View ArticleSunday, 6 November 2016 : Letter to the Hebrews 9,1-12.
Even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. For a tent was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence; this is...
View ArticleMonday, 7 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, ‘Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to...
View ArticleMonday, 7 November 2016 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,11-18.
Every priest stands day after day at his service, offering again and again the same sacrifices that can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, ‘he...
View ArticleTuesday, 8 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified...
View ArticleTuesday, 8 November 2016 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,19-25.
Since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain (that is, through his flesh), and since we have a great priest...
View ArticleWednesday, 9 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you...
View ArticleWednesday, 9 November 2016 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,26-31.
If we wilfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgement, and a fury of fire that will consume...
View ArticleThursday, 10 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
‘I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us,...
View ArticleThursday, 10 November 2016 : Letter to the Hebrews 10,32-39.
But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings, sometimes being publicly exposed to abuse and persecution, and sometimes being partners...
View ArticleFriday, 11 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. ‘Righteous Father,...
View ArticleFriday, 11 November 2016 : Letter to the Romans 5,12-16.
Just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when...
View ArticleSaturday, 12 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my...
View ArticleSaturday, 12 November 2016 : Letter to the Romans 5,17-21.
If, because of the one man’s trespass, death exercised dominion through that one, much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in...
View ArticleSunday, 13 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and...
View ArticleSunday, 13 November 2016 : Letter to the Romans 4,13-25.
The promise that he would inherit the world did not come to Abraham or to his descendants through the law but through the righteousness of faith. If it is the adherents of the law who are to be the...
View ArticleSunday, 13 November 2016 : Commentary Saint Ephrem
The angel said to him: “God has heard the voice of your prayer”. If Zechariah believed his prayer would be heard then he prayed well; if he did not believe, he prayed badly. His prayer was about to be...
View ArticleMonday, 14 November 2016 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the...
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