Epistle Reading: Galatians 5:11-21
And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I
still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross has ceased.
I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut
themselves off!
For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do
not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one
another.
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "
You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be
consumed by one another!
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do
not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the
law.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are:
adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of
which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that
those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gospel Reading: Luke 3:23-4:1
Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of
age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, the son of Heli,
the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son
of Janna, the son of Joseph,
the son of Mattathiah, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the
son of Esli, the son of Naggai,
the son of Maath, the son of Mattathiah, the son of Semei, the
son of Joseph, the son of Judah,
the son of Joannas, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel,
the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son
of Elmodam, the son of Er,
the son of Jose, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son
of Matthat, the son of Levi,
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son
of Jonan, the son of Eliakim,
the son of Melea, the son of Menan, the son of Mattathah, the
son of Nathan, the son of David,
the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of
Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the
son of Perez, the son of Judah,
the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son
of Terah, the son of Nahor,
the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of
Eber, the son of Shelah,
the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the
son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the
son of Mahalalel, the son of Cainan,
the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of
God.
Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the
Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Saints and Feasts
The Holy & Righteous Ancestors of God, Joachim and Anna; Severian the Martyr of Sebastia; Theophanes the Confessor; Afterfeast of the Nativity of the Theotokos; Memory of the Third Holy Ecumenical Council in Ephesus
