4th day after Epiphany

First Letter of John

Beloved, we love God because he first loved us.
If anyone says, "I love God," but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
This is the commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the father loves (also) the one begotten by him.
In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments.
For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,
for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.

Psalms

O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king's son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
From fraud and violence he shall redeem them,
and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
May they be prayed for continually;
day by day shall they bless him.
May his name be blessed forever;
As long as the sun his name shall remain.
In him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed;
All the nations shall proclaim his happiness.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke

Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region.
He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all.
He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read
and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring glad tidings to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."
Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them, "Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.

Sts. Julian and Basilissa(Martyrs († c. 313))

Sts. JULIAN and BASILISSAMartyrs ( c. 313) Sts. Julian and Basilissa were married and lived by mutual consent in perpetual chastity. They practiced the norms of piety, asceticism and works of mercy. They converted their house into a hospital for the sick and destitute. In the hospital, Basilissa attended the women and Julian attended the men. They lived in Egypt, which abounded with pious and charitable persons. St. Basilissa endured seven persecutions and died in peace. St. Julian survived her many years. He received the crown of martyrdom together with Celsus, Celsus' mother Marcianilla, a priest named Antony and Anastasius. Many churches and hospitals in the East and especially in the West are named after them. Four churches in Rome and three out of five in Paris, which bear the name of St. Julian, were originally dedicated under the name of St. Julian the Hospitalarian and martyr. In the time of St. Gregory the Great, the skull of St. Julian was given to Queen Brunehault of France. She entrusted it to a convent that she founded in Étampes. Today, part of St. Julian's skull is at the monastery of Morigny, near Étampes. The other part is at the church of the regular canonesses of St. Basilissa in Paris.

St. Adrian of Canterbury()

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