Daily Readings for Thursday October 18,2018
Season of Elijah-Cross-Moses
St. Luke the Evangelist
Reading 3, Rom 14: 10-13 : Shall not judge your brother.
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Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God; |
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for it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God." |
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So each of us shall give account of himself to God. |
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Then let us no more pass judgment on one another, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother. |
Gospel, Mt. 25: 1-13 : The parable of the ten bridesmaids
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"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be compared to ten maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. |
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Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. |
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For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them; |
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but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. |
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As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. |
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But at midnight there was a cry, `Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.' |
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Then all those maidens rose and trimmed their lamps. |
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And the foolish said to the wise, `Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' |
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But the wise replied, `Perhaps there will not be enough for us and for you; go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.' |
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And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast; and the door was shut. |
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Afterward the other maidens came also, saying, `Lord, lord, open to us.' |
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But he replied, `Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.' |
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Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. |