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We
welcome members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem who are worshipping with us today. Father
Alexei is a Knight Commander of the Order and the Middle East Peace Lamp burning on the south side of our church was obtained
through the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.
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The following readings below are for Sunday, September
17, 2017:
Today's Epistle reading [Galatians 2.16-20]:
We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,
yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ
Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one
be justified. But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we ourselves were found to be sinners, is Christ then
an agent of sin? Certainly not! But if I build up again those things which I tore down, then I prove myself a
transgressor. For I through the law died to the law, that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ;
it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the
law, then Christ died to no purpose.
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The Gospel reading for today
[Mark 8.34-9.1]:
And he called
to him the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and
take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and
the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what
can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation,
of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." And
he said to them, "Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom
of God come with power."
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