Divergence on the Lectionary – Third Sunday of Easter, Year C
First Reading Acts 9:1–6 (7-20) But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as […]
Divergence on the Lectionary, Second Sunday of Easter, Year C
First Reading Acts 5:27–32 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” But Peter and […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Easter Sunday, Year C (Principal Service)
First Reading Acts 10:34–43 So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Passion Sunday, Year C
Because the Passion Narrative for this Sunday is so long, I’m putting a link here so that you can click straight to the Comments and Questions for Discussion if you’d rather do that than scroll and scroll (and scroll). (Click Here for Comments and Questions.) First Reading Isaiah 50:4–9a The Lord GOD has given me […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C
First Reading Isaiah 43:16–21 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year C
First Lesson Joshua 5:9–12 (earlier verses added for context) As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel […]
Divergence on the Lectionary, Third Sunday in Lent, Year C
First Reading Exodus 3:1–15 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Second Sunday in Lent, Year C
First Reading Genesis 15:1-12,17-18 (omitted verses in italics) After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord GOD, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Ash Wednesday (all readings)
First Reading Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming; it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – First Sunday in Lent, Year C
First Reading Deuteronomy 26:1–11 “When you come into the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
First Reading Exodus 34:29–35 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Seventh Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
First Reading Genesis 45:3-11, 15 (omitted verses in italics) And Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?” But his brothers could not answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
First Lesson Jeremiah 17:5–10 Thus says the LORD: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
First Lesson Isaiah 6:1-8, [9-13] In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – The Presentation of Our Lord
First Reading Malachi 3:1–4 “Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the LORD of hosts. But who can endure the day of […]
Divergence on the Lectionary – Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
First Reading Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 (Omitted verses in italics) And all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the […]
