Revised Common Lectionary:
Isaiah 6:1-8
Psalm 29
Romans 8:12-17
John 3:1-17
Eastern Rite Lections:
Vespers:
Isa 43:9-14
Wis 3:1-9
Wis 5:15-6:3
Liturgy:
Heb 11:33-12:2
Mt 10:32, 33, 37, 38; 19.27-30
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life.
HIS SERMON Is being drafted on Hallowe’en.
What I mean by that is that it is the Eve of the Feast of All Saints as I write. In the Eastern Rite the Sunday after Pentecost is the Feast of All Saints and it has been so for quite some time – long before the Pope moved the western observance of this feast to November (although, that too, was the Orthodox action of an Orthodox Pope). All Saints day will be important in a minute… hold on.