2023 Trinity Lectionary: Live in Peace

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

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

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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2023 Epiphany Lectionary: Showing the Way

Maybe you will not be called
With the coal held to your lips,
The rush of wings of
Ambitious angels
Covering you. …
But maybe you will be called by
Fallen mustard seeds and
Open-eyed dreams.
Maybe you will be called by
The ordinary and the striking,
The places where your heart catches
More than once. …
Maybe you will know that
Your call is no less real
Because it comes with
Seeds in your hand
And the taste of fruit in your mouth,
With a sound so soft
It could have just been the breeze,
But wasn’t.

–- Laura Martin
Associate Pastor
Rock Spring Congregational UCC, Arlington, VA

Showing the Way

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2022 Advent Lectionary: Sleepers Wake

Christ climbed down
from His bare Tree
this year
and softly stole away into
some anonymous Mary’s womb again
where in the darkest night
of everybody’s anonymous soul
He awaits again
an unimaginable
and impossibly
Immaculate Reconception
the very craziest
of Second Comings

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, from A Coney Island of the Mind

What are we waking for?

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