Ps 96:7-8
Adore God, all you His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced.
Ps 96:1
The Lord has reigned; let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad.
Glory Be to the Father…
Adore God, all you His angels: Sion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Juda rejoiced.

Grant us, we beseech You, almighty God, ever to think of spiritual things and in every word and work always to do what is well pleasing in Your sight.
Through our Lord…

Lesson from the first letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
1 Thess. 1:2-10
Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all, continually making a remembrance of you in our prayers; being mindful before God our Father of your work of faith, and labor, and charity, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. We know, brethren, beloved of God, how you were chosen. For our Gospel was not delivered to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much fullness, as indeed you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has been spread abroad, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we need say nothing further. For they themselves report concerning us how we entered among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to await from heaven Jesus, His Son, Whom He raised from the dead, Who has delivered us from the wrath to come.

Ps 101:16
The Gentiles shall fear Your name, O Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory.
℣. For the Lord has built up Sion, and He shall be seen in His glory. Alleluia, alleluia.
Ps 96:1
℣. The Lord has reigned, let the earth rejoice: let many islands be glad. Alleluia.

Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew
Matt 13:31-35
At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the crowds: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. This indeed is the smallest of all the seeds; but when it grows up it is larger than any herb and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches. He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without parables he did not speak to them; that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, I will open My mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world.

Ps 117:16-17
The right hand of the Lord has wrought strength; the right hand of the Lord has exalted me: I shall not die, but live, and shall declare the works of the Lord.

May this offering, O God, we beseech You, cleanse and renew us, govern and protect us.
Through our Lord…

Holy Trinity
It is truly meet and just, right and for our salvation, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto Thee, O holy Lord, Father almighty, everlasting God; Who, together with Thine only-begotten Son, and the Holy Ghost, art one God, one Lord: not in the oneness of a single Person, but in the Trinity of one substance. For what we believe by Thy revelation of Thy glory, the same do we believe of Thy Son, the same of the Holy Ghost, without difference or separation. So that in confessing the true and everlasting Godhead, distinction in persons, unity in essence, and equality in majesty may be adored. Which the Angels and Archangels, the Cherubim also and Seraphim do praise: who cease not daily to cry out, with one voice saying:

Luke 4:22
They all marveled at these things that came from the mouth of God.

Nourished by Your heavenly food, O Lord, we beseech You that we may always strive after those things that give us true life.
Through our Lord…