Category: Lectionary C2

Revelation 10:8-11Luke 19:45-48 I took the small scroll from the angel’s hand and swallowed it. In my mouth it was like sweet honey, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour.Revelation 10:10 Chesterton rather famously said, “Christianity has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found difficult and not tried.” Every…

Revelation 5:1-10Luke 19:41-44 If this day you only knew what makes for peace – but now it is hidden from your eyes.Luke 19:42b These came to me in College, they are called, Bailey’s Four Spiritual Flaws of Human Interaction: Humans are primates. Primates are Territorial. Humans have evolved to a point where “territory” includes abstract…

Revelation 4:1-11Luke 19:11-28 Worthy are you, Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things; because of your will they came to be and were created.Revelation 4:11 The Introduction to a Devout Life by St Francis de Sales has been my evening and morning reading for a month or…

Revelation 3:1-6, 14-22Luke 19:1-10I know your works, that you have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead… I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of…

Revelation 1:1-4; 2:1-5Luke 18:35-43Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” He replied, “Lord, please let me see.” Jesus told him, “Have sight; your faith has saved you.” He immediately received his sight and followed him, giving glory to God.Luke 18:40c-43a This blind man, asking for pity. Jesus says, “What?” The…

Malachi 3:19-20aII Thessalonians 3:7-12Luke 21:5-19 Jesus said, “All that you see here– the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.”Luke 21:6 In the weeks leading up to Advent the western Lectionary gets apocalyptic. Today it comes out in full swing! The collection…

III John 5-8Luke 18:1-8 Beloved, you are faithful in all you do for the brothers and sisters, especially for strangers; they have testified to your love before the Church. Please help them in a way worthy of God to continue their journey. For they have set out for the sake of the Name and are…

II John 1:4-9Luke 17:26-37 Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it.Luke 17:32-33 For some time there has been a growing fear that “some Christians supporting Trump” will get turned into “all Christians”. Most secularists can’t tell the difference between a Charismatic…

Philemon 1:7-20Luke 17:20-25 I, Paul, write this in my own hand: I will pay. May I not tell you that you owe me your very self. Yes, brother, may I profit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.Philemon 1:19-20 The Epistle to Philemon is one of those passages from St Paul that…

Ezechiel 41:1-2,8-9-12 I Corinthians 3: 9c-11, 16-17 John 2:13-22 He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, John 2 (NABRE) Simony, in the church, is the buying and selling of church…

Titus 2:1-8, 11-14Luke 17:7-10We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty.Luke 17:10 My tendency is to crave recognition for things I have done. I confess that ad libitum, ad nauseum, along with my other sins. But I’m happy to note that we live in a world where I can get little…

Titus 1:1-9 Luke 17:1-6 [A Bishop] must hold firm to the sure word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to confute those who contradict it. Titus 1:9 his passage is about a Bishop or “Elder” or “Overseer” in a congregation, but it is true of…

II Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 II Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 Luke 20:27-38 Pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed on and triumph, as it did among you, and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard…

Philippians 4:10-19Luke 16:9-15 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and want. I can do all things in him who strengthens me.Philippians 4:12-13 One of the things that drives me bonkers about modern charity…

From the Facebook Feed of ElectionDayCommunion2016.com Philippians 3:17-4:1Luke 16:1-8 The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness.Luke 16:8a Do you find this passage confusing? It’s one that usually stumps me when it comes up in the lectionary. Here’s my go for this year: If this is a parable of the Kingdom, then the Rich…