Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 13:4-14:5
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not
provoked, thinks no evil;
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the
truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies,
they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there
is knowledge, it will vanish away.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect has come, then that
which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood
as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away
childish things.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to
face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the
greatest of these is love.
Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but
especially that you may prophesy.
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men
but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks
mysteries.
But he who prophesies speaks edification and
exhortation and comfort to men.
He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who
prophesies edifies the church.
I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that
you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with
tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive
edification.
Gospel Reading: Matthew 20:1-16
"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out
early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
"Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a
day, he sent them into his vineyard.
"And he went out about the third hour and saw others
standing idle in the marketplace,
"and said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and
whatever is right I will give you.' And they went.
"Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and
did likewise.
"And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others
standing idle, and said to them, 'Why have you been standing here idle all
day?'
"They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to
them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right you will
receive.'
"So when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard said
to his steward, 'Call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning
with the last to the first.'
"And when those came who were hired about the eleventh hour,
they each received a denarius.
"But when the first came, they supposed that they would
receive more; and they likewise received each a denarius.
"And when they had received it, they murmured against the
landowner,
"saying, 'These last men have worked only one hour, and
you made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the heat of the day.'
"But he answered one of them and said, 'Friend, I am doing
you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
'Take what is yours and go your way. I wish to give to
this last man the same as to you.
'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own
things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'
"So the last will be first, and the first last. For many
are called, but few chosen."
Saints and Feasts
The Holy Seven Maccabee Children, Solomone Their Mother, and Eleazar Their Teacher; Procession of the Precious Cross; Timothy the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Priconissus; Elesa the Righteous-Martyr of Kythira
