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2 Samuel 23:1-7 Psalm 132 Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Psalm 93 Revelation 1:4b-8 John 18:33-37 Year B Proper 29 (34) Revised Common Lectionary His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not pass away, and his kingship is one that shall never be destroyed. from thence he shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick [...]

Job 1:1, 2:1-10 Psalm 26 Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 Year B Proper 22 (27) Revised Common Lectionary It is not good that the man should be alone When I left ECUSA for Eastern Orthodoxy, I was continuing a journey I’ve always been on. I was looking for the One Right [...]

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 Psalm 124 Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50 Year B Proper 21 (26) Revised Common Lectionary Indeed everyone is going to be salted with fire. Mark 9:49 I like this passage, which in some translations talks rather overmuch about the “worm that shall not die and the [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33 Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1 Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 116:1-9 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom. Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that [...]

Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9 Deuteronomy 4:1-2, 6-9 Psalm 15 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Year B, Proper 17 (22) Revised Common Lectionary When Sare asked me to preach today I was very honoured. My own mission community meets only two Sundays a month and so I was happy to be able [...]

1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Psalm 111 Proverbs 9:1-6 Psalm 34:9-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 The full texts can be found here. [G]iving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything… The Greek here uses the Greek word “Eucharist”. It’s the same word for our liturgy today, it’s the same word for every [...]

Revised Common Lectionary: 1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13 Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34 Eastern Rite: Romans 2:10-16 Matthew 4:18-23 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts [...]

Seventh Sunday after Pascha – the Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. Eastern Rite Readings: Vespers: Genesis 14:14-20 Deuteronomy 1:8-11 Deuteronomy 10:14-21 Matins: John 21:1-14 (Matins Gospel 10) Liturgy: Acts 20:16-18, 28-36 John 17:1-13 Revised Common Lectionary Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19 And now I am no [...]

Christ is Risen! Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? HE Sixth and final Sunday of Pascha is called the Sunday of the Blind man. In the Eastern Rite, we use the Reading of this story from John. I have to admit that it reads to me as a [...]

Christ is Risen! Sir, I see that you are a prophet. T HAS To be one of the great toss-off lines in the Bible. Jesus shows up, proclaims his messiah-ship and then accuses the woman of serial monogamy. (Why else would she be coming to the well in the middle of the day if not [...]