Saturday, March 12, 2016
Liturgical Season: 
III The Season of Great Fast

2 Cor 11:1-6

Preaching Without Charge.* 1If only you would put up with a little foolishness from me!* Please put up with me.a 2* For I am jealous of you with the jealousy of God, since I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.b 3But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve* by his cunning, your thoughts may be corrupted from a sincere [and pure] commitment to Christ.c 4For if someone comes and preaches another Jesus* than the one we preached,d or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it well enough. 5* e For I think that I am not in any way inferior to these “superapostles.” 6Even if I am untrained in speaking, I am not so in knowledge;f in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.*

Mk 4:35-41

The Calming of a Storm at Sea. 35* On that day, as evening drew on, he said to them, “Let us cross to the other side.”m 36Leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat just as he was. And other boats were with him. 37A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat, so that it was already filling up. 38Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. They woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” 39He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!”* The wind ceased and there was great calm. 40Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?” 41* n They were filled with great awe and said to one another, “Who then is this whom even wind and sea obey?”