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Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson Acts 10, 40-43 God
raised up Jesus the third day, and shewed him openly; not to all the people,
but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink
with him after he rose from the dead.
And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it
is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead. To him
give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believes in
him shall receive remission of sins. The Brethren,
know you not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were
baptized into his death? Therefore we
are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up
from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in
newness of life. For if we have been
planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the
likeness of his resurrection: knowing this, that our old man is crucified
with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should
not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with
Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing that Christ
being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over
him. For in that he died, he died
unto sin once: but in that he lives, he lives unto God. Likewise reckon you
also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus
Christ our Lord. |
Octave of Easter – Monday Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson
Rom 10, 8b-10 The
word is beside you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word
of faith, which we preach; that if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead,
you shall be saved. For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. The
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Octave of Easter
– Tuesday Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson
Acts 13, 30-33 God
raised Jesus from the dead: and he was seen many days by them who came up
with him from Galilee to The Beloved,
seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a
pure heart fervently: being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,
which lives and abides for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory
of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof
falls away: but the aword of the Lord endures for ever. And this is the word
which by the gospel is preached unto you. Wherefore laying aside all malice,
and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as anewborn babes, desire the sincere milk
of the word, that you may grow thereby:
If so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as
unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and
precious, you also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus
Christ. Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, ‘Behold, I lay in
Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believes in him shall
not be confounded.’ Unto you therefore who believe he is precious: but unto
them who are disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same
is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of
offence, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto
also they were appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that you should show forth the
praises of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
who in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: who had
not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. |
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Octave of Easter – Wednesday Psalms of Sunday
of the 1st week Short Lesson Romans 6, 8-11 Now if
we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him: knowing
that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more
dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he
lives, he lives unto God. Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead
indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Dearly
beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,
which war against the soul; having your conversation honest among the
Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your
good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it
be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by
him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing you may put to silence the
ignorance of foolish men: as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of
maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the
brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the
good and gentle, but also to the obstnate. For this is thankworthy, if a man
for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory
is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently?
but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is
acceptable with God. For even hereunto were you called: because Christ also suffered
for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow his steps: Who did no
sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled
not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him
that judges righteously: Who his own self bore our bsins in his own body on
the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by
whose stripes you were healed. For you were as sheep going astray; but are
now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. |
Octave of Easter
– Thursday Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson
Romans 8, 10-11 If
Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life
because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also
quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. The Beloved,
see that you wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey
not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of
the wives; while they behold your
chaste conversation coupled with fear. Whose adorning let it not be that
outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting
on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is
not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in
the sight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the
holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection
unto their own husbands: even as Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose
daughters you are, as long as you do well, and are not afraid with any
amazement. Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs
together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered. Finally, be you all of one mind, having
compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: not
rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing;
knowing that you are thereunto called, that you should inherit a blessing.
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue
from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do
good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the
righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord
is against them that do evil. And who is he that will harm you, if you be
followers of that which is good? But and if you suffer for righteousness'
sake, happy are you: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an
answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with
meekness and fear: having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of
you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good
conversation in Christ. For it is
better, if the will of God be so, that you suffer for well doing, than for
evil doing. |
Octave of Easter
– Friday Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson
Acts 5, 30-32 The God
of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew and hanged on a tree. Him has
God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give
repentance to The Beloved,
Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he
might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the
Spirit. By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; who
sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the
days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, wherein few, that is, eight
souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism does also
now save us, not by putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of
a good conscience toward God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: who is
gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and
powers being made subject unto him. Forasmuch then as Christ has suffered for
us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that has
suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the
rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the
Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine,
revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: wherein they think it
strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil
of you: who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and
the dead. For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are
dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit. But the end of all things is at hand: be you
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent
charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use
hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man has received the
gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the
manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God;
if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that
God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise
and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. |
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Octave of Easter
– Saturday Psalms of Sunday of the 1st week Short Lesson Rom 14, 7-9 For
none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself. For whether we live,
we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we
live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died,
and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the
living. The Reading is from the First Epistle
of St Peter Beloved,
think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as
though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as you are
partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you
may be glad also with exceeding joy. If you be reproached for the name of
Christ, happy are you; for the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on
their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer,
or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him
glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that ajudgment must begin at
the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them
that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved,
where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Wherefore let them that suffer
according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well
doing, as unto a faithful Creator. The elders who are among you I exhort, who
am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a
partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is
among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly;
not for filthy profit, but of a ready mind; neither as being lords over God's
heritage, but being exsamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall
appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away. Likewise, you
younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Indeed, all of you be subject one
to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resistes the proud, and
gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand
of God, that he may exalt you in due time: casting all your care upon him;
for he cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the
devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: whom
resist steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are
accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all
grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that
you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle
you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. |
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