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JEREMIAH
31:27-34
PSALM
119:97-104
2
TIMOTHY 3:14-4:5
LUKE
18:1-8
COLLECT
Almighty and everliving
God,
increase in us your gift of faith,
that forsaking what lies behind
and reaching out to what is before,
we may run the way of your commandments
and win the crown of everlasting joy;
through Jesus Christ our Lord,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
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A
READING FROM THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH
The days are surely
coming, says the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the
house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals.
And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down,
to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them
to build and to plant, says the Lord. In those days they shall no
longer say: "The parents have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge." But all shall die for
their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall
be set on edge. The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of
Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their
ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the
land of Egypt - a covenant that they broke, though I was their
husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make
with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will
put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall
they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the
Lord," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to
the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity,
and remember their sin no more.
JEREMIAH 31:27-34
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PSALM
REFRAIN The words of
the Lord are sweeter than honey.
Oh,
how I love your law! all the day long it is in my mind.
Your
commandment has made me wiser than my enemies, and it is always
with me. R
I
have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are
my study.
I
am wiser than the elders, because I observe your commandments. R
I
restrain my feet from every evil way, that I may keep your word.
I
do not shrink from your judgements, because you yourself have
taught me. R
How
sweet are your words to my taste! they are sweeter than honey to
my mouth.
Through
your commandments I gain understanding; therefore I hate every
lying way. R
PSALM 119:97-104
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A
READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL TO TIMOTHY
As for you, continue in
what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you
learned it, and how from childhood you have known the sacred
writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith
in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful
for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be
proficieint, equipped for every good work. In the presence of God
and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and
in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:
proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favourable
or unfavourable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost
patience in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not
put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will
accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and
will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to
myths. As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work
of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
2 TIMOTHY 3:14-4:5
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THE
HOLY GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
ACCORDING TO LUKE
Then Jesus told them a
parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He
said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared
God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who
kept coming to him and saying, 'Grant me justice against my
opponent.' For a while he refused; but later he said to himself,
'Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet
because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice,
so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.'" And
the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. And
will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day
and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will
quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes,
will he find faith on earth?"
LUKE 18:1-8
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