Lectionary Theme: Hudos Eetho: Renewal of the Church; Festival of Unity of CSI, CNI, and Mar Thoma Church, Unity of the churches: For the witness of the Kingdom of God
November 10 2024
1. Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.
2. And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.
3. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac,
4. and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
5. Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst, and afterward I brought you out.
6. When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
7. When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them, and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. Afterward you lived in the wilderness a long time.
8. Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I handed them over to you, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
12. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
14. Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
16. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18. But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19. If all were a single member, where would the body be?
20. As it is, there are many members yet one body.
21. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22. On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23. and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect,
24. whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member,
25. that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.
26. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
27. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
1. I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2. with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
3. making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace:
4. there is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling,
5. one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6. one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
7. But each of us was given grace according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
20. “I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word,
21. that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
22. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one,
23. I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.