Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost
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Epistle: Philippians 3:17-21, 4:1-3
17 Be content, brethren, to follow my example, and mark well those who live by the pattern we have given them;
18 I have told you often, and now tell you again with tears, that there are many whose lives make them the enemies of Christ’s cross.
19 Perdition is the end that awaits them, their own hungry bellies are the god they worship, their own shameful doings are their pride; their minds are set on the things of earth;
20 whereas we find our true home in heaven. It is to heaven that we look expectantly for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to save us;
21 he will form this humbled body of ours anew, moulding it into the image of his glorified body, so effective is his power to make all things obey him.
1 Then, O my brethren, so greatly loved and longed for, all my delight and prize, stand firmly in the Lord, beloved, as I bid you.
2 I call upon thee, Evodia, and I call upon thee, Syntyche, to make common cause in the Lord.
3 Yes, and I ask thee, who sharest the yoke so loyally, to take part with them; they have worked for the gospel at my side, as much as Clement and those other fellow labourers of mine, whose names are recorded in the book of life.
Gospel: Matthew 9: 18-26
18 At that time while Jesus spoke to them, it chanced that one of the rulers came and knelt before him, and said, Lord, my daughter is this moment dead; come now and lay thy hand on her, and she will live.
19 So Jesus rose up and went after him, and so did his disciples.
20 And now a woman who for twelve years had been troubled with an issue of blood, came up behind him and touched the hem of his cloak;
21 she said to herself, If I can even touch the hem of his cloak, I shall be healed.
22 Jesus turned and caught sight of her; and he said, Have no fear, my daughter, thy faith has brought thee healing. And the woman recovered her health from that hour.
23 So Jesus came into the ruler’s house, where he found mourners playing the flute, and the multitude thronging noisily;
24 and he said, Make room there; the child is not dead, she is asleep; and they laughed aloud at him.
25 But when the multitude had been turned away, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she rose up.
26 And the story of these doings spread abroad through all the country round.