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Saturday in the Second Week - At Liturgy
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.
Commemoration of the Dead.
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Hebrews 3:12-16
12
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest
any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the
beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
15
While
it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your
hearts, as in the provocation.
16
For some, when they had
heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt
by Moses.
Commemoration of the Dead:
1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not,
even as others which have no hope.
14
For if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15
For this we say
unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive
and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep.
16
For the Lord himself shall
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
17
Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the