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...
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...
Year B Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 119:9-16 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Jeremiah lived during one of the most critical periods in the history of the Jewish people… the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple… followed immediately by the Babylonian exile… he witnessed the last years of the kingdom...
Year A Genesis 18:1-15 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 Romans 5:1-8 Matthew 9:35-10:8 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Our reading from Genesis… is about hospitality… God came as three men… three angels… in the heat of the day… when there was no air conditioning… when heat indices were no less real than they are...
Year A Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14 May the words of my mouth O God… speak your truth… Every ten years… our government conducts a census… the main purpose of which is to count heads… to know how many people live here… so it can figure out how many seats each state receives in the...