Daily Readings for Tuesday January 02,2018
Season of Nativity
Boy Jesus in the Temple
Reading 3, Gal 6:1-10 : Bear one another’s burdens
1 | Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted. |
2 | Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. |
3 | For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. |
4 | But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. |
5 | For each man will have to bear his own load. |
6 | Let him who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches. |
7 | Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. |
8 | For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. |
9 | And let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not lose heart. |
10 | So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. |
Gospel, Lk 2:41-52 : Boy Jesus in the Temple
41 | Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. |
42 | And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to custom; |
43 | and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, |
44 | but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances; |
45 | and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. |
46 | After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; |
47 | and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. |
48 | And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." |
49 | And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" |
50 | And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. |
51 | And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. |
52 | And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man. |