Päivän lukukappaleet

Epistola

Tobit 12:7-15

Tästä kirjasta ei ole omalla kielelläsi vapaasti käytettävää käännöstä, joten tämä lukukappale näytetään englanniksi.

It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God. Do good, and evil won’t find you. Good is prayer with fasting, alms, and righteousness. A little with righteousness is better than much with unrighteousness. It is better to give alms than to lay up gold. Alms delivers from death, and it purges away all sin. Those who give alms and do righteousness will be filled with life; but those who sin are enemies to their own life. Surely I will keep nothing closed from you. I have said, ‘It is good to keep close the secret of a king, but to reveal gloriously the works of God.’ And now, when you prayed, and Sarah your daughter-in-law, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One. When you buried the dead, I was with you likewise. And when you did not delay to rise up, and leave your dinner, that you might go and cover the dead, your good deed was not hidden from me. I was with you. And now God sent me to heal you and Sarah your daughter-in-law. I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels, which present the prayers of the saints, and go in before the glory of the Holy One.”

Evankeliumi

Johannes 5:1-4

Sitte oli Juudalaisten juhlapäivä, ja Jesus meni ylös Jerusalemiin. Mutta Jerusalemissa on Lammasportin tykönä lammikko, joka Hebrean kielellä kutsutaan Betesda, jossa oli viisi vajaa, Joissa makasi suuri joukko sairaita, sokeita, ontuvia, halvatuita, jotka veden liikuttamista odottivat. Sillä enkeli tuli alas määrätyllä ajalla lammikkoon ja sekoitti veden: joka siis ensimäisenä veteen astui, kuin se sekoitettu oli, niin se parani, ehkä missä ikänä taudissa hän oli.