Glimpses of the Gospel

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Mathew 12: 1 – 8 At that time Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath." He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath." The Gospel of the Lord

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew 11: 28 – 30 Jesus said to his disciples: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light." The Gospel of the Lord

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew 11: 25 – 27 At that time Jesus said in reply, "I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him." The Gospel of the Lord

+ Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew 10: 34 — 11: 1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’ Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple - amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.” When Jesus finished giving these commands to his twelve disciples, he went away from that place to teach and to preach in their towns. The Gospel of the Lord.

+ Holy Gospel according to Luke 10: 25-37 A doctor of the Law stood up and asked him to test him, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus asked him in turn, "What is written in the Law? What do you read in it?" He answered him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your spirit, and your neighbour as yourself." "You have answered exactly," Jesus said to him; "so do, and you will attain life." But the doctor of the Law, to justify his intervention, asked him this question, "And who is my neighbour?" Jesus said to him, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him of everything, wounded him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road: he saw him and passed by. A Levite also passed by: he saw him and went on his way. But a Samaritan, as he passed by, saw him and was moved with pity. Then he came and dressed his wounds, covering them with oil and wine; then he put him on his own saddle, led him to an inn and took care of him. The next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, "Take care of him, and whatever you spend extra, I will pay you back when I return." Which of the three do you think behaved as a neighbour to the man assaulted by the robbers?" "The one who had compassion on him," the doctor answered him. And Jesus said to him, "Go and do likewise." The Gospel of the Lord.