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28, Misra 1742 (Thursday, 3 September 2026)

Vespers

Psalm

Psalms 47:8-9

8God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne.9The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.

Gospel

John 15:7-16

7If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.8By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.9As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.10If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.11These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.13Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.14You are My friends if you do whatever I command you.15No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.16You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.

Matins

Psalm

Psalms 105:3-4

3Let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord!4Seek the Lord and His strength; Seek His face evermore!

Gospel

Luke 16:19-31

19There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day.20But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate,21desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.22So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.23And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.24Then he cried and said, `Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'25But Abraham said, `Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented.26`And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'27Then he said, `I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house,28`for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'29Abraham said to him, `They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.'30And he said, `No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.'31But he said to him, `If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.'

Liturgy

Pauline

Hebrews 11:1-10

1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.2For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.3By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.4By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.5By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, and was not found, because God had taken him; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.6But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.7By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.8By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.9By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;10for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Catholic

James 2:14-23

14What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?15If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food,16and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?17Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.18But someone will say, You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.19You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble!20But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?21Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar?22Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect?23And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. And he was called the friend of God.

Acts

Acts 7:20-34

20At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his father's house for three months.21But when he was set out, Pharaoh's daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son.22And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.23Now when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel.24And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended and avenged him who was oppressed, and struck down the Egyptian.25For he supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand.26And the next day he appeared to two of them as they were fighting, and tried to reconcile them, saying, `Men, you are brethren; why do you wrong one another?'27But he who did his neighbor wrong pushed him away, saying, `Who made you a ruler and a judge over us?28`Do you want to kill me as you did the Egyptian yesterday?'29Then, at this saying, Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.30And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai.31When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he drew near to observe, the voice of the Lord came to him,32saying, `I am the God of your fathers--the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.' And Moses trembled and dared not look.33`Then the Lord said to him, Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.34I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt. '

Psalm

Psalms 105:8-10

8The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,9The covenant which He made with Abraham, And His oath to Isaac,10And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

Gospel

Mark 12:18-27

18Then some Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him; and they asked Him, saying:19Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies, and leaves his wife behind, and leaves no children, his brother should take his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.20Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife; and dying, he left no offspring.21And the second took her, and he died; nor did he leave any offspring. And the third likewise.22So the seven had her and left no offspring. Last of all the woman died also.23Therefore, in the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For all seven had her as wife.24Jesus answered and said to them, Are you not therefore mistaken, because you do not know the Scriptures nor the power of God?25For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.26But concerning the dead, that they rise, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the burning bush passage, how God spoke to him, saying, `I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'?27He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living. You are therefore greatly mistaken.