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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
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The following readings below are for Sunday, August
9, 2020:
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 spectable 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
chiildren. 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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The Gospel reading for today
[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 hence to yonder place,' 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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