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Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
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The following readings below are for Sunday, October
21, 2018:
Today's Epistle reading [Galatians 6.11-18]:
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a
good showing in the flesh that would compel you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the
cross of Christ. For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you
circumcised that they may glory in your flesh. But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for anything,
nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. Peace and mercy be upon all who walk by this rule, upon the Israel of God.
Henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear on
my body the makrs of Jesus.
The
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brethren.
Amen.
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The Gospel reading for today
[Luke 16.19-31]:
"There
was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay
a poor man named Lazarus, full of sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table; moreover the dogs
came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also
died and was buried; and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool
my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.' But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your
good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides
all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be
able, and none may cross from there to us.' And he said, 'Then I beg you, Father, to send him to my father's house,
for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.' But Abraham said,
'They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.' And he said, 'No, Father Abraham; but if some one goes to them
from the dead, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be
convinced if some one should rise from the dead'."
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