Tuesday After Epiphany – Bautha of the Virgins 1Samuel 7:3-9 Samuel as Judge of Israel 3 Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your heart to the Lord, […]
Wednesday After Epiphany – Bautha of the Virgins Joel 2:15-27 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly; 16 gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. 17 Between the vestibule and the altar […]
2nd Friday of Epiphany – Memorial of Ss. Peter & Paul 2Kings 4:8-37 Elisha and the Shunammite Couple 8 One day Elisha went on to Shunem, where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So whenever he passed that way, he would turn in there to eat food. 9 And she said […]
2nd Sunday of Epiphany Numbers 10:29-11:10 29 And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us, and we will do you good; for the Lord has promised good to Israel.” […]
3rd Friday of Epiphany – Memorial of the Evangelists 1Kings 18:30-39 30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me”; and all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that had been thrown down; 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes […]
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple - Shimun Sawa - February 2 Leviticus 12:1-8 Purification of Women 12 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Say to the sons of Israel, If a woman conceives, and bears a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as at the time of her menstruation, […]
Isaiah 49:13-23 13 Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted. 14 But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, my Lord has forgotten me.” 15 “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have […]
Isaiah 49:7-13 7 Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One, to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nations, the servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall prostrate themselves; because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.” 8 Thus says […]
Isaiah 51:9-11; 52:7-12 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? 10 Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the […]
2Kings 2:1-15 Elijah Is Taken Up to Heaven 2 Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. 2 And Elijah said to Elisha, “Tarry here, I beg you; for the Lord has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, […]
Exodus 15:11-21 11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, terrible in glorious deeds, doing wonders? 12 You stretched out your right hand, the earth swallowed them. 13 “You have led in your merciful love the people whom you have redeemed, you have guided them by your strength to […]
Isaiah 6:1-13 A Vision of the Lord in the Temple 1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered […]
Exodus 19:1-9; 20:18-21 The Israelites Reach Mount Sinai 1 On the third new moon after the sons of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 And when they set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the […]
Isaiah 35:3-10 The Lord Will Come to Save 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, “Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.” 5 Then the eyes of the blind […]
Joel 2:15-26 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly; 16 gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber. 17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep […]
Genesis 14:1-20 Lot’s Captivity and Rescue 14 In the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Ched″-or-laomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2 these kings made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, […]
Deuteronomy 1:3-17 3 And in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, 4 after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, […]
The Law - From 4th Wednesday of Lent Genesis 13:8-18 8 Then Abram said to Lot, “Let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are kinsmen. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you take the left hand, then I […]
Deuteronomy 1:16-33 16 And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien that is with him. 17 You shall not be partial in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike; you shall not be afraid of the […]