Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Liturgical Season: 
Special Significance: 
Anniversary of the Episcopal Ordination of Bishops Vincent Mar Paulos, Thomas Mar Anthonios, Samuel Mar Irenios and Philipos Mar Stephanos (2010)

Neh 9:6-15

6* “You are the LORD, you alone;

You made the heavens,

the highest heavens and all their host,

The earth and all that is upon it,

the seas and all that is in them.

To all of them you give life,

the heavenly hosts bow down before you.

7d You are the LORD God

who chose Abram,

Who brought him from Ur of the Chaldees,

who named him Abraham.

8e You found his heart faithful in your sight,

you made the covenant with him

To give the land of the Canaanites,

Hittites, Amorites,

Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites

to him and his descendants.

You fulfilled your promises,

for you are just.

9f You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt,

you heard their cry by the Red Sea;

10g You worked signs and wonders against Pharaoh,

against all his servants and the people of his land,

Because you knew of their insolence toward them;

thus you made for yourself a name even to this day.

11h The sea you divided before them,

on dry ground they passed through the midst of the sea;

Their pursuers you hurled into the depths,

like a stone into the mighty waters.

12i With a column of cloud you led them by day,

and by night with a column of fire,

To light the way of their journey,

the way in which they must travel.

13j On Mount Sinai you came down,

you spoke with them from heaven;

You gave them just ordinances, true laws,

good statutes and commandments;

14k Your holy sabbath you made known to them,

commandments, statutes, and law you prescribed for them,

by the hand of Moses your servant.

15l Food from heaven you gave them in their hunger,

water from a rock you sent them in their thirst.

You told them to enter and occupy the land

which you had sworn to give them.

Rom 3:27-31

27s What occasion is there then for boasting?* It is ruled out. On what principle, that of works? No, rather on the principle of faith.* 28For we consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law.t 29Does God belong to Jews alone? Does he not belong to Gentiles, too? Yes, also to Gentiles,u 30for God is one and will justify the circumcised on the basis of faith and the uncircumcised through faith.v 31Are we then annulling the law by this faith? Of course not!w On the contrary, we are supporting the law.*

Jn 15:11-17

11“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.h 12This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.i 13* No one has greater love than this,j to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends,* because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.k 16It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.l 17This I command you: love one another.m