Year A Readings Isaiah 11:1-10 Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19 Romans 15:4-13 Matthew 3:1-12 Collect of the DayMerciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives...
The Fourth Sunday of Advent (A Seven-Week Advent)November 30, 2025 Advent I Year AIsaiah 2:1-5Psalm 122Romans 13:11-14Matthew 24:36-44 Collect of the DayAlmighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ...
Year C Readings Jeremiah 23:1-6 Psalm 46 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 Collect of the Day Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together...
Year C Readings Malachi 4:1-2a Psalm 98 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Luke 21:5-19 Collect of the Day Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of...
(22nd Sunday after Pentecost) Year C ReadingsJob 19:23-27a,Psalm 17:1-92 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17Luke 20:27-38 Some may and others may not know that all episcopal priests are deacons as well. Indeed, ancient Christian theology understands that, beginning with Baptism, ordination initiates a change to the essence of who we are: so all priests and bishops are...