Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Gospel for this
tenth Sunday after Pentecost presents Jesus healing a young man with a demon. When
asked why they, his disciples, could not cast the demon out, Jesus replies, “Because of your little faith.”
In the Epistle for this Sunday, Saint Paul attacks the self-importance and the lack of humility and obedience of
some of the Christians at Corinth.
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The readings below are Sunday, August 17, 2025
Today's Epistle reading: [1 Corinthians
4.9-16]
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become
a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but
you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill-clad and
buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when
slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things.
I do not write this to make you ashamed,
but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers.
For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
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Today's Gospel reading: [Matthew 17.14-23]
And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and kneeling before him said, "Lord, have mercy on my
son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought
him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, "O faithless and perverse generation,
how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the
demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could
we not cast it out?” He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith
as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be
impossible to you."
As they were gathering
in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and
he will be raised on the third day." And they were greatly distressed.
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