ΝΑΜΑΤΑ ΓΛΥΚΥΡΡΟΙΑ: Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes

37 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ' αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ἰησοῦς, πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.
38 ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς κώμην τινά: γυνὴ δέ τις ὀνόματι μάρθα ὑπεδέξατο αὐτόν.
39 καὶ τῇδε ἦν ἀδελφὴ καλουμένη μαριάμ, [ἣ] καὶ παρακαθεσθεῖσα πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τοῦ κυρίου ἤκουεν τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ.
40 ἡ δὲ μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν: ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ εἶπεν, κύριε, οὐ μέλει σοι ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν; εἰπὲ οὖν αὐτῇ ἵνα μοι συναντιλάβηται.
41 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, μάρθα μάρθα, μεριμνᾷς καὶ θορυβάζῃ περὶ πολλά,
42 ἑνὸς δέ ἐστιν χρεία: μαριὰμ γὰρ τὴν ἀγαθὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται αὐτῆς.

Πέμπτη 13 Ιανουαρίου 2011

Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes

Luke 12:32-40

The Lord said, "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give alms;
provide yourselves with purses that do not grow old, with a treasure in
the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth
destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Let
your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are
waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that
they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are
those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say
to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will
come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the
third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants! But know this,
that if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming,
he would not have left his house to be broken into. You also must
be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an unexpected hour."