October 2, 2014

Reading

The Book of Exodus   23: 20-23

23:20	Behold, I will send my Angel, who will go before you, and preserve you on your journey, and lead you into the place that I have prepared.
23:21	Heed him, and hear his voice, and do not hold him in disregard. For he will not release you when you have sinned, and my name is in him.
23:22	But if you listen to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies, and I will afflict those who afflict you.
23:23	And my Angel will go before you, and he will bring you to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, whom I will crush.

Gospel

The holy Gospel According to Matthew   18: 1-5, 10

18:1	In that hour, the disciples drew near to Jesus, saying, “Whom do you consider to be greater in the kingdom of heaven?”
18:2	And Jesus, calling to himself a little child, placed him in their midst.
18:3	And he said: “Amen I say to you, unless you change and become like little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
18:4	Therefore, whoever will have humbled himself like this little child, such a one is greater in the kingdom of heaven.
18:5	And whoever shall accept one such little child in my name, accepts me.
18:10	See to it that you do not despise even one of these little ones. For I say to you, that their Angels in heaven continually look upon the face of my Father, who is in heaven.