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Readings from 'Imitaion of Christ': Arranged for each Sunday of the Christian Year

First Sunday in Advent

'Let us walk honestly, as in the day.' i, 13.
'All the city was moved, saying, Who is this?' i. 24.

Second Sunday in Advent

'Written for our learning.' i. 5.
'Lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.' iii. 49.

Third Sunday in Advent

'Stewards of the mysteries of God.' iv. 5.
'What went ye out into the wilderness to see.' i. 2.

Fourth Sunday in Advent

'Be careful for nothing.' iii. 17.
'Make straight the way of the Lord.' i. 21.

Christmas Day

'Thou are the same, and Thy years shall not fail.' ii. 7.
'In Him was Life.' iv. 2.

Last Sunday of the Year

Rememberance of past mercies. ii. 10; iii. 22.

First Sunday of the Year

'Work while it is day.' i. 25.
'The sources of peace.' iii. 23.

Epiphany

'We have seen His star.' The needfulness and power of Divine grace. iii. 54,55.

First Sunday after Epiphany

'Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.' i. 7,8.
'He was subject unto them.' iii. 13.

Second Epiphany after Sunday

'Patient in tribulation.' iii. 19.
'Jesus was called, and his disciples.' ii. 8.

Third Sunday after Epiphany

'Live peaceably with all men.' 11. 3.
'Lord, if Thou wilt Thou canst make me clean.' iv. 16.

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

'Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.' i. 9.
'Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' iii. 30.

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

'Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.' iii. 42.
'Wilt thou that we gather up the tares?'

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

'It doth not yet appear what we shall be." iii. 47.
'If any man shall say, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not.' ii. 1.

Purification

'That they may offer unto the Lord an offering of righteousness.' iv. 8.

Septugesima

'So run that ye may obtain.' ii. 12.
'Is it not lawful for one to do what I will with mine own?' iii. 58.

Seragesima

'In death oft.' iii. 18. 'A sower went out to sow his seed.' iii. 3.

Quinquagesima

'Charity beareth all things.' i. 16. 'Lord, that I may receive my sight.' iv. 4.

Ash Wednesday

Meditation on death. i. 23.

First Sunday in Lent

'Sorrowful yet always rejoicing.' iii. 50.
'Tempted like as we are.' i. 1.

Second Sunday in Lent

'This is the will of God, even your sanctification.' iii. 32.
'Lord help me.' ii. 9.

Third Sunday in Lent

'Whatsoever doth make manifest is light.' iii. 2.
'Blessed are they that hear the Word of God and keep it.' iii. 1.

Fourth Sunday in Lent

'Children of the free.' iii. 37.
Multiplication of the loves. iv. 11.

Fifth Sunday in Lent

'Offered Himself without spot to God.' iv. 9.
'Which of you convinceth Me of sin.' ii. 6.

Sixth Sunday in Lent

'Let this mind be in you.' iii. 56.
Preparation for Communion. iv. 10.

Good Friday

'Let us draw near with a true heart.' iv. 6.

Easter Day

'Ye are dead,a dn your life is hid with Christ in God.' iii. 31.
'Let us keep the feast.' iv. 17.

First Sunday after Easter

'Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.' iii. 10.
'Peace be unto you.' iii. 25.

Second Sunday after Easter

'Even hereunto were ye called.' iii. 46. 'I am known of mine.' iv. 13.

Third Sunday after Easter 'Abstain from fleshly lusts.' i. 6.
'Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice.' i. 12.

Fourth Sunday after Easter

'Slow to speak.' i. 20. 'I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.' iii. 51.

Fifth Sunday after Easter

'To keep himself unspotted from the world.' i. 18.
'be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.' iii. 57.

Ascension Day

'Shall so come.' iii. 48.

Sunday after Ascension day 'Be sober, and watch unto prayer.' iii. 9.
'They shall put you out of the synagogues.' iii. 36.

Whitsunday

'Tongues like as of fire.' iii. 5.
'If a man love Me, he will keep my words.' iii. 6.

Trinity Sunday

'Thou art worthy, O Lord.' iii. 59.
'How can these things be?' i. 3.

First Sunday after Trinity

'He that loveth not, knoweth not God.' iii. 43.
Dives and Lazarus. i. 22.

Second Sunday after Trinity

'Marvel not if the world hate you.' iii. 29.
'Come, for all things are now ready.' iv. 1.

Third Sunday after Trinity

'Be clothed with humility.' iv. 15.
'The Pharisees and scribes murmured.' i. 14.

Fourth Sunday after Trinity

'The glory which shall be revealed.' iii. 21.
'Cast out first the beam out of thine own eye.' ii. 5.

Fifth Sunday after Trinity

'Seek peace and ensue it.' i. 11.
'At Thy word I will let down the net.' iii. 39,44.

Sixth Sunday after Trinity

'That the body of sin might be destroyed.' i. 19.
'Agree with thine adversary quickly.' iii. 11.

Seventh Sunday after Trinity

'Yield your members to righteousness.' i. 17.
'Whence can a man satisfy these men with bread in the wilderness?' iii. 26.

Eighth Sunday after Trinity

'We cry "Abba, Father."' iii. 16.
'Good fruits.' i. 15.

Ninth Sunday after Trinity

'Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.' ii. 2.
'Give an account of thy stewardship.' iv. 7.

Tenth Sunday after Trinity 'Discerning of spirits.' iii. 15.
'Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.' ii. 1.

Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

'Not I, but the grace of God that is with me.' iii. 52.
'God be merciful to me a sinner.'

Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

'Our sufficiency is of God.' iii. 33. 'They beseech Him to put His hand upon him.' iii. 29.

Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

'The promise by faith of Jesus Christ.' iv. 14.
'Blessed are the eyes which see the things which ye see.' iv. 18.

Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

'The flesh lusteth against the spirit.' iii. 12.
'Where are the nine?' ii. 10.

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity 'The Cross of Christ.' ii. 11.
'No man can serve two masters.'

Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

'Above all that we ask or think.' iv. 2.
The childless widow. ii. 9.

Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity

'Above all.' iii. 14.
'Sit not down in the highest room.' i. 7.

Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

'In everything ye are enriched by Him.' iii. 1.
'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.' iii. 34.

Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity

'Taught by Him as the truth is in Jesus.'
'Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts.'

Twentieth Sunday after Trinity

'Walk circumspectly.' iii. 4.
'The king came in to see the guests.' iii. 7.

Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity

'Take the whole armour of God.' iii. 35.
'When he heard that Jesus was come, he went to Him.' iii. 38.

Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity

'That your love may abound yet more and more.' iv. 3.
'Have patience with me.' iii. 20.

Twenty-Three Sunday after Trinity

'Who mind earthly things.' iii. 53.
'Took counsel how they might entangle Him.' iii. 28, 45.

Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity

'The hope which is laid up for you in heaven.' iii. 41.
'If I may but touch His garment I shall be whole.' iv. 12.

Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity

'The Lord is Righteousness.' iii. 8.
'This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world.' iii. 40.