IVangeli kaDisemba 15 2018

Incwadi ye-Orthodoxastical 48,1-4.9-11.
Ngezo ntsuku uEliya umprofeti, wayefana nomlilo, Ilizwi lakhe lavutha njengeziko.
Wabazisela indlala kwaye wabakhuthaza ngenzondelelo ukuba bambalwa.
Ngokomlomo * kaNdikhoyo wavala isibhakabhaka, wawususa umlilo amatyeli amathathu.
Wayedume kangakanani, uEliya, ngemimangaliso! Kwaye ngubani onokuqhayisa ngokuba ulingana nawe?
Waqeshwa ngoqhwithela lomlilo kwinqwelo yamahashe omlilo,
yenzelwe ukoyama kwamaxesha ukuze icaphukise ingqumbo ngaphambi kokuba ivuthe, ukubuyisa iintliziyo zootata kubantwana babo kunye nokubuyisela izizwe zakwaYakobi.
Banoyolo abo bakubonileyo nabalele uthando! Kuba nathi ngokuqinisekileyo siya kuphila.

Salmi 80(79),2ac.3b.15-16.18-19.
Wena, malusi akwaSirayeli, yiva,
Uhleli phezu kweekherubhi!
Vusa amandla akho
Thixo wemikhosi, jika, ubheke ezulwini

Uyabona, undwendwele esi sidiliya,
Khusela isiphunzi esityelwe lilungelo lakho,
ihlumelo olikhulileyo.
Isandla sakho masibe phezu kwendoda ngasekunene kwakho,

kunyana womntu ozomelezayo.
Asisayi kumka kuwe,
Uya kusiphila kwaye siya kulibiza igama lakho.

Ukusuka kwiVangeli kaYesu Krestu ngokukaMateyu 17,10, 13-XNUMX.
Behla entabeni, abafundi bambuza uYesu: "Kutheni ke ababhali besithi uEliya umelwe kukufika kuqala?
Uphendule wathi, Ewe, uEliya uza kulungisa yonke into.
Ke mna ndithi kuni, uEliya usefikile, abamazanga; ewe, bayiphatha ngendlela ababefuna ngayo. Kwangokunjalo naye uNyana woMntu uza kuva ubunzima ngenxa yomsebenzi wabo.
Baqonda ke abafundi ukuba wayethetha ngoYohane umbhaptizi.