Epistle

Galatians chapter five verses sixteen to twenty-four

Brethren: Walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh : for these are contrary one to another : so that you do not the things that you would.

But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, envy, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which

I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do

such things, shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity,

goodness, longanimity, mildness, faith, modesty, continency,

chastity.

Against such there is no law.

And they that are Christ's, have crucified their flesh with the vices and concupiscences. Amen.

GOSPEL. Matthew chapter six verses twenty-four to thirty-three

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples: No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body more than the raiment ?

Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Are not you of much more value than they? And which of you, by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit ?

And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they labour not, neither do they spin. But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

And if the grass of the field, which is to-day and to-morrow

is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe, how much more

you, Oh ye of little faith?

Be not solicitous therefore, saying, what shall we eat, or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? For after all these things do the heathens seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all

these things. Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and

his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you. Amen