Ash Wednesday, 2014

Eerste Lees

Joël 2: 12-18

2:12	Nou, daarom, the Lord says: “Be converted to me with your whole heart, in fasting and weeping and mourning.”
2:13	And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and convert to the Lord your God. For he is gracious and merciful, patient and full of compassion, and steadfast despite ill will.
2:14	Who knows if he might convert and forgive, and bequeath a blessing after him, a sacrifice and a libation to the Lord your God?
2:15	Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly.
2:16	Gather the people, sanctify the church, unite the elders, gather together the little ones and infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom depart from his bed, and the bride from her bridal chamber.
2:17	Between the vestibule and the altar, die priesters, the ministers of the Lord, will weep, and they will say: “Spare, O Heer, spare your people. And do not bequeath your inheritance into disgrace, so that the nations would rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
2:18	The Lord has been zealous for his land, and he has spared his people.

Tweede Lees

The Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 5: 20-6:2

5:20	Daarom, we are ambassadors for Christ, so that God is exhorting through us. We beseech you for Christ: be reconciled to God.
5:21	For God made him who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the justice of God in him.

2 Korintiërs 6

6:1	Maar, as a help to you, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
6:2	Want hy sê: “In a favorable time, I heeded you; and on the day of salvation, I helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; kyk, now is the day of salvation.

Evangelie

Die Heilige Evangelie volgens Matteus 6: 1-6, 16-18

6:1	"Gee aandag, dat jy nie jou geregtigheid voor mense doen nie, om deur hulle gesien te word; anders sal jy geen beloning by jou Vader hê nie, wie in die hemel is.
6:2	Daarom, wanneer jy aalmoese gee, moenie kies om 'n basuin voor jou te blaas nie, soos die geveinsdes in die sinagoges en in die stede doen, sodat hulle deur mense geëer kan word. Amen sê ek vir jou, hulle het hul beloning ontvang.
6:3	Maar wanneer jy aalmoese gee, moenie dat jou linkerhand weet wat jou regterhand doen nie,
6:4	sodat jou aalmoese in die geheim kan wees, en jou Vader, wat in die geheim sien, sal jou terugbetaal.
6:5	En wanneer jy bid, julle moenie soos die huigelaars wees nie, wat daarvan hou om in die sinagoges en op die hoeke van die strate te staan ​​om te bid, sodat hulle deur mense gesien kan word. Amen sê ek vir jou, hulle het hul beloning ontvang.
6:6	Maar jy, wanneer jy bid, gaan jou kamer binne, en nadat hy die deur gesluit het, bid in die geheim tot jou Vader, en jou Vader, wat in die geheim sien, sal jou terugbetaal.
6:16	En wanneer jy vas, kies nie om somber te word nie, soos die skynheiliges. Want hulle verander hul gesigte, sodat hulle vas vir die mense duidelik kan wees. Amen sê ek vir jou, dat hulle hul beloning ontvang het.
6:17	Maar wat jou betref, wanneer jy vas, salf jou kop en was jou gesig,
6:18	sodat julle vas nie vir die mense sigbaar sal wees nie, maar aan jou Vader, wat in die geheim is. En jou Vader, wat in die geheim sien, sal jou terugbetaal.