Holy Communion Service in Malayalam
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Lectionary Theme: Reformation Sunday Reformation: A Call for Renewal Twelfth Sunday after the Feast of Pentecost
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2 Kings 23:1-6 First Lesson
1. Then the king directed that all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem should be gathered to him.
2. The king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him went all the people of Judah, all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people, both small and great; he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant that had been found in the house of the Lord.
3. The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord, keeping his commandments, his decrees, and his statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. All the people joined in the covenant.
4. The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and the guardians of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5. He deposed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who made offerings to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the constellations, and all the host of the heavens.
6. He brought out the image of Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the Wadi Kidron, burned it at the Wadi Kidron, beat it to dust and threw the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.
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Titus 3:3-8 Second Lesson
3. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
4. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5. he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
6. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7. so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
8. The saying is sure. I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone.
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Romans 11:1-6 Epistle
1. I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.
2. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?
3. “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have demolished your altars; I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”
4. But what is the divine reply to him? “I have kept for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
5. So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
6. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace would no longer be grace.
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Luke 5:36-39 Gospel
36. He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and sews it on an old garment; otherwise the new will be torn, and the piece from the new will not match the old.
37. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
38. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
39. And no one after drinking old wine desires new wine, but says, ‘The old is good.’”