the four seasons

²²All the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, night and day, will not cease.”

²¹And he alters the times and the ages. He takes away kingdoms and he establishes them. He gives wisdom to those who are wise and teaching skills to those who understand.

¹⁴Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years. ¹⁵Let them shine in the firmament of heaven and illuminate the earth.” And so it became. ¹⁶And God made two great lights: a greater light, to rule over the day, and a lesser light, to rule over the night, along with the stars. ¹⁷And he set them in the firmament of heaven, to give light over all the earth, ¹⁸and to rule over the day as well as the night, and to divide light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹And it became evening and morning, the fourth day.

¹⁷And by saying these things, they were barely able to restrain the crowds from immolating to them.

¹⁴Then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven. And let them divide day from night, and let them become signs, both of the seasons, and of the days and years.

⁷But he said to them: “It is not yours to know the times or the moments, which the Father has set by his own authority.

¹All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval.

¹⁷You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.

¹All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval. ²A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pull up what was planted. ³A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build up. ⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance. ⁵A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. ⁶A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

⁹Therefore, you shall pray in this way: Our Father, who is in heaven: May your name be kept holy. ¹⁰May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth. ¹¹Give us this day our life-sustaining bread. ¹²And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors. ¹³And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.

¹³Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity. ¹⁴Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.” ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.”

²⁰The harvest has passed by, the summer is at an end, and we have not been saved.

³But those who have taught will shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who instruct many towards justice, like the stars for unending eternity.