Lectionary

2023 Recommitment Lectionary: Seeking God in All This

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Revised Common Lectionary

Recommitment 2023

My starting point is that we’re already there. We cannot attain the presence of God because we’re already totally in the presence of God. What’s absent is awareness. Little do we realize that God is maintaining us in existence with every breath we take. As we take another it means that God is choosing us now and now and now. We have nothing to attain or even learn. We do, however, need to unlearn some things. 

Richard Rohr, Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer, p 27-28

Where is God in All This?

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September 10
Exodus 12:1-14
Psalm 149
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20		October 8
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Psalm 19
Philippians 3:4b-14
Matthew 21:33-46
September 17
Exodus 14:19-31
Psalm 114
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-3528
October 15
Recommitment Sunday
Exodus 32:1-14
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23
Philippians 4:1-9
Matthew 22:1-14
September 24
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16		October 22
JUBILEE
Exodus 33:12-23
Psalm 99
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew 22:15-22
October 1
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32

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2023 Summer Lectionary: Wrestling with Faith

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Revised Common Lectionary

Summer 2023

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!” Jesus’ response [understood in the Greek, is:] “If you have the faith of a mustard seed (and you do) – implying … that what they need isn’t more faith. What they need to realize is that the thing they ALREADY have IS faith. It’s like Jesus is saying how much faith do you have? and I’m like I don’t know Jesus, it’s not very much it’s like barely any and Jesus is saying “perfect!”

Nadia-Bolz Weber, “A sermon on faith and doubt,” Oct. 2, 2022

Where are you wrestling with faith?

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2023 Trinity Lectionary: Live in Peace

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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Attributed to Henry Nowen

_How did you offer peace this week?

May 28
PENTECOST
Acts 2:1-21
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
John 7: 37-39
July 2
Genesis 22:1-14
Psalm: 13
Romans 6:12‑23
Matthew 10:40‑42
June 4
TRINITY SUNDAY
Genesis 1:1‑2:4a
Psalm 8
2 Corinthians 13:11‑13
Matthew 28:16‑20		July 9
Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67
Psalm 45: 10-17
Romans 7:15-25a
Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
June 11
Genesis 12:1-9
Psalm 33:1-12
Romans 4:13-25
Matthew 9:35-10:23		July 16
Genesis 25:19-34
Psalm 119:105-112
Romans 8:1‑11
Matthew 13:1‑9, 18-23
June 18
Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7
Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
Romans 5:1-8
Matthew 9:35-10:23		July 23
Genesis 28:10-19a
Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24
Romans 8:12‑25
Matthew 13:24‑30, 36‑43
June 25
Genesis 21:8-21
Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
Romans 6:1b-11
Matthew 10:24-39		July 30
SUMMER
Genesis 29 :15-28
Psalm 1051-11, 45b
Romans 8:26-39
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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2023 Easter Lectionary: So That We May Be One

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If one goes into one’s own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else, and everyone else, as well as oneself, in the heart of Ultimate Mystery.

— From The Contemplative Outreach Newsletter, vol 25–June 2010 in The Thomas Keating Reader

So That We May Be One

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2023 Lent Lectionary: It Depends on Faith

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Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion – its message becomes meaningless.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, p. 3

It Depends on Faith

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