The Pauline Epistle ___ Romans 11: 13-36

DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES  THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF HATOUR THE VICTORIOUS SUNDAYS OF THE LORD OF HOSTS that He must rise again from the dead. Then LITURGY MATINS the disciples went away again to their own homes. But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down THE PAULINE EPISTLE :  PSALM 143 : 8 and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the 1 CORINTHIANS 4 : 1 - 16 other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in Let a man so consider us, as servants of the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me lain. Then they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "Because Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. to know the way in which I should walk, For I Moreover it is required in stewards that one be lift up my soul to You. they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him." Now when found faithful. But with me it is a very small she had said this, she turned around and saw thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. GOSPEL  Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why For I know nothing against myself, yet I am not JOHN 20 : 1 - 18 are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?" justified by this; but He who judges me is the She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, Now on the first day of the week Mary Him, "Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell until the Lord comes, who will both bring to Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it me where You have laid Him, and I will take light the hidden things of darkness and reveal was still dark, and saw that the stone had been Him away." Jesus said to her, "Mary!" She the counsels of the hearts. Then each one's taken away from the tomb. Then she ran and turned and said to Him, "Rabboni!" (which is praise will come from God. Now these things, came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, to say, Teacher). Jesus said to her, "Do not brethren, I have figuratively transferred to whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, learn in us not to think beyond what is written, we do not know where they have laid Him." 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of Peter therefore went out, and the other and to My God and your God.'" Mary one against the other. For who makes you differ disciple, and were going to the tomb. So they Magdalene came and told the disciples that from another? And what do you have that you both ran together, and the other disciple outran she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken did not receive? Now if you did indeed receive Peter and came to the tomb first. And he, these things to her. it, why do you boast as if you had not received stooping down and looking in, saw the linen it? You are already full! You are already rich! cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. Then You have reigned as kings without us; and Simon Peter came, following him, and went indeed I could wish you did reign, that we also into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths  might reign with you! For I think that God has lying there, and the handkerchief that had displayed us, the apostles, last, as men been around His head, not lying with the linen condemned to death; for we have been made a cloths, but folded together in a place by itself. spectacle to the world, both to angels and to Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you first, went in also; and he saw and believed.   are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are For as yet they did not know the Scripture, strong! You are distinguished, but we are DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES  THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF HATOUR THE VICTORIOUS SUNDAYS OF THE LORD OF HOSTS dishonored! To the present hour we both unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus PSALM 100 : 3 hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, Christ. and beaten, and homeless. And we labor, Know that the LORD, He is God; It is He working with our own hands. Being reviled, THE PRAXIS †  who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being ACTS 16 : 40 – 17 : 7 His people and the sheep of His pasture. defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all So they went out of the prison and entered the GOSPEL  things until now. I do not write these things to house of Lydia; and when they had seen the shame you, but as my beloved children I warn brethren, they encouraged them and departed. MARK 10 : 17- 31 you. For though you might have ten thousand Now when they had passed through Amphipolis instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, "Good fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you there was a synagogue of the Jews. Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal through the gospel. Therefore I urge you, life?" So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me imitate me. Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures, explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had good? No one is good but One, that is, God. "You to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery,' "This Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ." 'Do not murder,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not bear false THE CATHOLIC EPISTLE  And some of them were persuaded; and a great witness,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and 2 PETER 1 : 1 - 8 multitude of the devout Greeks, and not a few of your mother.'" And he answered and said to Him, the leading women, joined Paul and Silas. But the "Teacher, all these things I have kept from my Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jews who were not persuaded, becoming envious, youth." Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like took some of the evil men from the marketplace, said to him, "One thing you lack: Go your way, sell precious faith with us by the righteousness of our and gathering a mob, set all the city in an uproar whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will God and Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of bring them out to the people. But when they did and follow Me." But he was sad at this word, and Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to not find them, they dragged Jason and some went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. us all things that pertain to life and godliness, brethren to the rulers of the city, crying out, Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, through the knowledge of Him who called us by "These who have turned the world upside down "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter glory and virtue, by which have been given to us have come here too. "Jason has harbored them, the kingdom of God!" And the disciples were exceedingly great and precious promises, that and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of astonished at His words. But Jesus answered again through these you may be partakers of the divine Caesar, saying there is another king; Jesus." and said to them, "Children, how hard it is for those nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God! "It world through lust. But also for this very reason, is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to  needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to God." And they were greatly astonished, saying self-control perseverance, to perseverance among themselves, "Who then can be saved?" But godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to Jesus looked at them and said, "With men it is brotherly kindness love. For if these things are   impossible, but not with God; for with God all things yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor are possible." Then Peter began to say to Him, "See, we have left all and followed You." So Jesus DIOCESE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES  THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF HATOUR THE VICTORIOUS SUNDAYS OF THE LORD OF HOSTS answered and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel's, "who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time; houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life. "But many who are first will be last, and the last first."