Sunday, 1 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Every year his parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up as usual for the festival. When the festival was ended and they started to...
View ArticleSunday, 1 January 2017 : Letter to the Hebrews 7,11-19.
If perfection had been attainable through the levitical priesthood for the people received the law under this priesthood what further need would there have been to speak of another priest arising...
View ArticleMonday, 2 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
When the time came for their purification according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord (as it is written in the law of the Lord, ‘Every firstborn male...
View ArticleMonday, 2 January 2017 : Letter to the Hebrews 7,1-10.
This ‘King Melchizedek of Salem, priest of the Most High God, met Abraham as he was returning from defeating the kings and blessed him’; and to him Abraham apportioned ‘one-tenth of everything’. His...
View ArticleTuesday, 3 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
Now there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon; this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit rested on him. It had been revealed to him...
View ArticleTuesday, 3 January 2017 : Letter to the Hebrews 7,20-28.
This was confirmed with an oath; for others who became priests took their office without an oath, but this one became a priest with an oath, because of the one who said to him, ‘The Lord has sworn and...
View ArticleWednesday, 4 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
There was also a prophet, Anna the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, having lived with her husband for seven years after her marriage, then as a widow to the age of...
View ArticleWednesday, 4 January 2017 : Letter to the Hebrews 6,9-12.
Even though we speak in this way, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that belong to salvation. For God is not unjust; he will not overlook your work and the love that you...
View ArticleThursday, 5 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis,...
View ArticleThursday, 5 January 2017 : Letter to the Romans 5,1-11.
Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the...
View ArticleFriday, 6 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke...
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, ‘I baptize you with water;...
View ArticleFriday, 6 January 2017 : Letter to Titus 2,11-15.3,1-7.
The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all, training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions, and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly, while...
View ArticleSaturday, 7 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
John summoned two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord to ask, ‘Are you the one who is to come, or are we to wait for another?’ When the men had come to him, they said, ‘John the Baptist has sent...
View ArticleSaturday, 7 January 2017 : Letter to the Colossians 1,24-29.
I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. I became its servant according...
View ArticleSunday, 8 January 2017 : Commentary Saint Gregory Nazianzen
The Christ is illuminated; let us take part in his splendor. The Christ is baptized; let us go down with him into the water so that we may come out of it with him... John baptizes, Jesus comes to him;...
View ArticleSunday, 8 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John...
The next day he saw Jesus coming towards him and declared, ‘Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! This is he of whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks ahead of me because...
View ArticleSunday, 8 January 2017 : Second Letter to the Corinthians 10,1-11.
I myself, Paul, appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold towards you when I am away! I ask that when I am present I need not show...
View ArticleMonday, 9 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark...
The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in the prophet Isaiah, ‘See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way; the voice of one crying...
View ArticleMonday, 9 January 2017 : Second Letter to the Corinthians 10,12-18.
We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another, and compare themselves with one another, they do not show...
View ArticleTuesday, 10 January 2017 : Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint...
This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, ‘Who are you?’ He confessed and did not deny it, but confessed, ‘I am not the Messiah.’ And they...
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