IVangeli langoFebhuwari 8, 2019

Incwadi eya kumaHeberu 13,1-8.
Bafowethu, qinani othandweni lobuzalwane.
Ungakhohlwa ukungenisa izihambi; abanye, bekwenza, bamukele izingelosi bengazi.
Khumbulani iziboshwa, kube sengathi niyiziboshwa ezikanye nabo, nalabo abahluphekayo, njengoba nani nisemzimbeni ofayo.
Umshado uyahlonishwa yibo bonke futhi umbhede awunabala. Izifebe neziphingi ziyohlulelwa uNkulunkulu.
Ukuziphatha kwakho akunanembeza; yaneliseke onakho, ngoba uNkulunkulu uqobo uthe: Ngeke ngikushiye futhi ngeke ngikulahle.
Ngakho singasho ngokuqiniseka sithi: INkosi ingusizo lwami, angiyikwesaba. Umuntu angenzani kimi?
Khumbulani abaholi benu, abakhuluma izwi likaNkulunkulu kini; ngokucabangisisa ngemiphumela yempilo yabo, lingisa ukholo lwabo.
UJesu Kristu nguyena izolo, namuhla naphakade!

AmaHubo 27 (26), 1.3.5.8b-9abc.
INkosi ingukukhanya kwami ​​nensindiso yami,
ngizokwesaba bani?
INkosi ingukuvikela impilo yami,
Ngizokwesaba bani?

Uma impi ikanise ngami,
inhliziyo yami ayesabi;
uma impi ingivukela,
nalapho ngiba nokuzethemba.

Unginikeza indawo yokuphephela
ngosuku lweshwa.
Ungifihla ekusithekeni kwekhaya lakhe,
ungiphakamisela eweni.

Ubuso bakho, Nkosi, ngiyabufuna.
Ungangifihleli ubuso bakho,
ungathukutheli inceku yakho.
Uwusizo lwami, ungangishiyi,

Okuvela kwiVangeli likaJesu Kristu ngokukaMarku 6,14: 29-XNUMX.
Ngaleso sikhathi, iNkosi uHerode yezwa ngoJesu, njengoba igama lakhe lase lidumile. Kwathiwa: "UJohane uMbhapathizi uvukile kwabafileyo futhi ngenxa yalesi sizathu amandla ezimangaliso asebenza kuye".
Abanye esikhundleni salokho bathi: "Ngu-Eliya"; abanye namanje bathi: "Ungumprofethi, njengomunye wabaprofethi."
Kodwa uHerode, ezwa ngakho, wathi: "Lowo Johane engamnquma ikhanda uvukile!".
Ngokuba uHerode wayembambile uJohane, wamfaka etilongweni ngenxa kaHerodiya, umkaFiliphu umfowabo ayemthathile.
UJohn wathi kuHerode: "Akuvumelekile kuwe ukuthi ugcine unkosikazi kamfowenu".
Ngenxa yalokhu uHerodiya wayembambele igqubu futhi wayethanda ukumbulala, kepha wehluleka,
ngoba uHerodi wayemesaba uJohane, azi ukuthi ulungile futhi ungcwele, futhi wayemgadile; futhi noma wayedideke kakhulu ekumlaleleni, nokho walalela ngokuzithandela.
Kodwa-ke, usuku oluhle lwafika, lapho uHerode enza idili losuku lwakhe lokuzalwa labakhulu benkantolo yakhe, izikhulu nabakhulu baseGalile.
Lapho kungena indodakazi kaHerodiya uqobo lwayo, yasina yajabulisa uHerode nabadlayo. Inkosi yabe isithi entombazaneni, "ngicela kimi okufunayo ngikunike."
Futhi wafunga kuye lesi sifungo: "Noma yini ongangicela yona, ngizokunika yona, noma ngabe yingxenye yombuso wami."
Intombazane yaphuma yathi kunina: "Yini okufanele ngiyibuze?" Uphendule wathi: "Ikhanda likaJohane uMbhapathizi."
Futhi wagijimela enkosini wenza isicelo wathi: "Ngifuna unginike ikhanda likaJohane uMbhapathizi ngokushesha ngoqwembe."
Inkosi yadabuka; nokho, ngenxa yesifungo nezivakashi, akathandanga ukumenqaba.
Ngokushesha inkosi yathumela unogada wayala ukuba lilethwe ikhanda lakhe.
Unogada wahamba, wamnquma ikhanda ejele, waletha ikhanda lakhe kuthileyi, walinika intombazane, intombazane yalinika unina.
Lapho abafundi bakaJohane bezwa ngalokhu, beza bathatha isidumbu sakhe basibeka ethuneni.