Thursday, January 14, 2016
Liturgical Season: 
II The Season of Yaldo-Denho
Special Significance: 
40 Martyrs of Mount Sinai

Heb 10:32-39

32Remember the days past when, after you had been enlightened,* you endured a great contest of suffering.y 33At times you were publicly exposed to abuse and affliction; at other times you associated yourselves with those so treated.z 34You even joined in the sufferings of those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you had a better and lasting possession.a 35Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense.b 36You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised.c

37“For, after just a brief moment,*

he who is to come shall come;

he shall not delay.d

38But my just one shall live by faith,

and if he draws back I take no pleasure in him.”e

39We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life.

Lk 12:35-40

Vigilant and Faithful Servants.* 35q “Gird your loins and light your lamps 36and be like servants who await their master’s return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks.r 37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait on them. 38And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared in this way, blessed are those servants. 39s Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 40You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”