INTROIT Apocryphal Esther 13:9a, 10, 11a; Psalm 119:1
(Antiphon) The whole world is in Your power; O Lord, King Almighty, *
No one can gainsay You.
For You have made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous things under the heaven. *
You are Lord of all!
Blessèd are the undefiled in the way, *
Who walk in the law of the Lord!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
COLLECT
Lord, we beseech You to keep Your household, the Church, in continual godliness, that through Your protection she may be free from all adversities and devoutly given to serve You in good works, to the glory of Your Name; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
OLD TESTAMENT READING Hosea 13:14
14 “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be your plagues! O Grave, I will be your destruction! Pity is hidden from My eyes.”
(NKJV)
GRADUAL Psalm 90:1-2
Lord, You have been our dwelling place *
In all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth, before You ever had formed the earth and the world, *
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
EPISTLE READING Ephesians 6:10-17
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; (NKJV)
VERSE Psalm 125:1
Alleluia. Alleluia. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, *
Which cannot be moved, but abides forever. Alleluia.
HOLY GOSPEL John 4:46-54
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” 49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!” 52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. 54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee. (NKJV)
