Occurring Scripture for the Hour of Matins
Ferias of the First Week after Epiphany
Sunday-Holy Family Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SaturdayNocturn I
Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 1:1-3Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes a brother, to the church of God that is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in every place of theirs and ours. Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Lesson ii
1 Corinthians 1:4-9I give thanks to my God always for you, for the grace of God that is given you in Christ Jesus, that in all things you are made rich in Him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge; As the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, So that nothing is wanting to you in any grace, waiting for the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful: by Whom you are called unto the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 1:10-13Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no schisms among you; but that you be perfect in the same mind, and in the same judgment. For it has been signified to me, my brethren, of you, by them that are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you who says: "I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I am of Cephas; and I of Christ." Is Christ divided? Was Paul then crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 5:1-5It is absolutely heard, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens; that one should have his father's wife. And you are puffed up; and have not rather mourned, that he might be taken away from among you, that hath done this deed. I indeed, absent in body, but present in spirit, have already judged, as though I were present, him that hath so done, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus; To deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Lesson ii
Corinthians 5:6-8Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupts the whole lump? Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new paste, as you are unleavened. For Christ our pasch is sacrificed. Therefore let us feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 5:9-11I wrote to you in an epistle, not to keep company with fornicators. I mean not with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or the extortionists, or the servers of idols; otherwise you must needs go out of this world. But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or a server of idols, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist: with such a one, not so much as to eat.
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.
Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.
Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 6:1-6Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints. Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels—how much more things of this world? If therefore you have judgments of things pertaining to this world, set them to judge, who are the most despised in the church. I speak to your shame. Is it so that there is not among you any one wise man, that is able to judge between his brethren? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.
Lesson ii
1 Corinthians 6:7-11Already indeed there is plainly a fault among you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why do you not rather take wrong? Why do you not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? But you do wrong and defraud, and that to your brethren. Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor liars with mankind, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortionists, shall possess the kingdom of God. And such some of you were; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 6:12-18All things are lawful to me, but all things are not expedient. All things are lawful to me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meat for the belly, and the belly for the meats; but God shall destroy both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. Now God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up also by His power. Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? God forbid. Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot, is made one body? For they shall be, said He, "two in one flesh." But he who is joined to the Lord, is one spirit. Fly fornication.
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.
Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.Nocturn I
Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 7:1-4Now concerning the thing whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. Let the husband render the debt to his wife, and the wife also in like manner to the husband. The wife has not power of her own body, but the husband. And in like manner the husband also has not power of his own body, but the wife.
Lesson ii
1 Corinthians 7:5-9Defraud not one another, except, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may give yourselves to prayer; and return together again, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency. But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one has his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that. But I say to the unmarried, and to the widows: It is good for them if they so continue, even as I. But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 7:10-14
But to them that are married, not I but the Lord commands, that the wife depart not from her husband. And if she depart, that she remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And let the husband not put away his wife. For to the rest I speak, not the Lord. If any brother has a wife that believes not, and she consents to dwell with him, let him not put her away. And if any woman has a husband that believes not, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not put away her husband. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife; and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the believing husband: otherwise your children should be unclean; but now they are holy.
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.
Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.Nocturn I
Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 13:1-3If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity (caritas=disinterested love), I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.
Lesson ii
1 Corinthians 13:4-10Charity is patient, is kind: charity does not envy, does not deal perversely; is not puffed up; is not ambitious, seeks not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil; rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices with the truth; bares all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Charity never falls away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 13:11-13When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child. We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known. And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.
Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.
Nocturn I
Lesson i
A reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 16:1-4Now concerning the collections that are made for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, so do ye also. On the first day of the week let every one of you put apart with himself, laying up what it shall well please him; that when I come, the collections be not then to be made. And when I shall be with you, whomsoever you shall approve by letters, them will I send to carry your grace to Jerusalem. And if it be approprite that I also go, they shall go with me.
Lesson ii
1 Corinthians 16:5-9Now I will come to you, when I shall have passed through Macedonia. For I shall pass through Macedonia. And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way wherever I shall go. For I will not see you now by the way, for I trust that I shall abide with you some time, if the Lord permit. But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. For a great door and evident is opened unto me: and many adversaries.
Lesson iii
1 Corinthians 16:10-14Now if Timothy comes, see that he be with you without fear, for he works the work of the Lord, as I also do. Let no man therefore despise him, but conduct ye him on his way in peace: that he may come to me. For I look for him with the brethren. And concerning our brother Apollo, I give you to understand, that I much entreated him to come to you with the brethren: and indeed it was not his will at all to come at this time. But he will come when he shall have leisure. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, do manfully, and be strengthened. Let all your things be done in charity.
Nocturns II & III
The second and third nocturns (if any) are taken from the
Offices of the Octave of the Epiphany or from an occurring feast.
Collect (if there is no occurring feast):
Let us pray:
In Thy divine goodness, O Lord, receive the requests and prayers of Thy faithful. Help them to know what they should do and give them the strength to do it well. This we ask through Our Lord.
