Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 16:19-31.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 16:19-31. 

Jesus said to the Pharisees: "There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. 

And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. 

When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and from the netherworld, where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.

And he cried out, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.' 

Abraham replied, 'My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented. Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.'

He said, 'Then I beg you, father, send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.'  But Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.' 

He said, 'Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' Then Abraham said, 'If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.'"

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 12:38-44. 

In the course of his teaching Jesus said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and accept greetings in the marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets. 

They devour the houses of widows and, as a pretext, recite lengthy prayers. They will receive a very severe condemnation. 

He sat down opposite the treasury and observed how the crowd put money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.

A poor widow also came and put in two small coins worth a few cents. 

Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, "Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury. 

For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood."

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 10:2-16

The Pharisees approached and asked, "Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?" They were testing him.

He said to them in reply, "What did Moses command you?" 

They replied, "Moses permitted him to write a bill of divorce and dismiss her." 

But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. 

But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female. 

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 

Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate." 

In the house the disciples again questioned him about this. 

He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

And people were bringing children to him that he might touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. 

When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. 

Amen, I say to you, whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child will not enter it."

Then he embraced them and blessed them, placing his hands on them.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:38-43.45.47-48. 

John said to Jesus, ''Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.''

Jesus replied, "Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. 

For whoever is not against us is for us. 

Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. 

Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe (in me) to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. 

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire.

And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. 

And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, 

where 'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.' 

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 9:30-37. 

They left from there and began a journey through Galilee, but he did not wish anyone to know about it. 

He was teaching his disciples and telling them, "The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death he will rise." 

But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him. 

They came to Capernaum and, once inside the house, he began to ask them, "What were you arguing about on the way?"

But they remained silent. They had been discussing among themselves on the way who was the greatest. 

Then he sat down, called the Twelve, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he shall be the last of all and the servant of all." 

Taking a child he placed it in their midst, and putting his arms around it he said to them, Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me; and whoever receives me, receives not me but the one who sent me. 

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 8:27-35. 

Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, «Who do people say that I am?» 

They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets." 

And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Messiah." 

Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. 

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days.

He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. 

At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." 

He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 7:1-8.14-15.21-23. 

When the Pharisees with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus, they observed that some of his disciples ate their meals with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands. (For the Pharisees and, in fact, all Jews, do not eat without carefully washing their hands, keeping the tradition of the elders.

And on coming from the marketplace they do not eat without purifying themselves. And there are many other things that they have traditionally observed, the purification of cups and jugs and kettles (and beds).) 

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders but instead eat a meal with unclean hands?"

He responded, "Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.'

You disregard God's commandment but cling to human tradition." 

He summoned the crowd again and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand. 

Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defile." 

From within people, from their hearts, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. 

All these evils come from within and they defile." 

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6: 60-69

Many of the disciples of Jesus who were listening said, This saying is hard; who can accept it?

Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring about this, he said to them, "Does this shock you? 

What if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

But there are some of you who do not believe." Jesus knew from the beginning the ones who would not believe and the one who would betray him. 

And he said, "For this reason I have told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by my Father." 

As a result of this, many (of) his disciples returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him. 

Jesus then said to the Twelve, "Do you also want to leave?" 

Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 

We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God." 

Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:51-58 

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." 

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us (his) flesh to eat?" 

Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. 

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.

For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. 

Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. 

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." 

Bread of life - The Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:41-51. 

The Jews murmured about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven," and they said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" 

Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop murmuring among yourselves.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day. 

It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me. 

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 

Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. 

I am the bread of life. 

Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died; this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die. 

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world." 

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:24-35. 

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. 

And when they found him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" 

Jesus answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled. 

Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."

So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?" 

Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent." 

So they said to him, "What sign can you do, that we may see and believe in you? What can you do? 

Our ancestors ate manna in the desert, as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

So Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 

For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 

So they said to him, "Sir, give us this bread always." 

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 6:1-15. 

Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. 

A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. 

Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 

The Jewish feast of Passover was near. 

When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?"

He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Philip answered him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little (bit)."

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 

There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?

Jesus said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. 

When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." 

So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.

When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world."

Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone. 

The Holy Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:30-34. 

The Apostles gathered together with Jesus and reported all they had done and taught. 

He said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while." People were coming and going in great numbers, and they had no opportunity even to eat.

So they went off in the boat by themselves to a deserted place. 

People saw them leaving and many came to know about it. They hastened there on foot from all the towns and arrived at the place before them. 

When he disembarked and saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.