Daily Readings for Tuesday January 09,2018
Season of Epiphany
The way to salvation is narrow
Reading 3, Tit 3:8-11 : Be vigilent in doing good deeds.
8 | The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good deeds; these are excellent and profitable to men. |
9 | But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile. |
10 | As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him, |
11 | knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned. |
Gospel, Lk 13:23-30 : The way to salvation is narrow
23 | And some one said to him, "Lord, will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them, |
24 | "Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. |
25 | When once the householder has risen up and shut the door, you will begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, `Lord, open to us.' He will answer you, `I do not know where you come from.' |
26 | Then you will begin to say, `We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.' |
27 | But he will say, `I tell you, I do not know where you come from; depart from me, all you workers of iniquity!' |
28 | There you will weep and gnash your teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out. |
29 | And men will come from east and west, and from north and south, and sit at table in the kingdom of God. |
30 | And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." |