All Saints of America

Job 1:1, 2:1-10 Psalm 26 Genesis 2:18-24 Psalm 8 Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 Mark 10:2-16 Year B Proper 22 (27) Revised Common Lectionary It is not good that the man should be alone When I left ECUSA for Eastern Orthodoxy, I was continuing a journey I’ve always been on. I was looking for the One Right [...]

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22 Psalm 124 Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Psalm 19:7-14 James 5:13-20 Mark 9:38-50 Year B Proper 21 (26) Revised Common Lectionary Indeed everyone is going to be salted with fire. Mark 9:49 I like this passage, which in some translations talks rather overmuch about the “worm that shall not die and the [...]

Proverbs 1:20-33 Wisdom of Solomon 7:26 – 8:1 Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 116:1-9 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 Year B, Proper 19 (24), Revised Common Lectionary God loves nothing so much as the person who lives with wisdom. Whenever we start to read the Wisdom passages of the Bible we cross a gender line. I use that [...]

1 Kings 2:10-12; 3:3-14 Psalm 111 Proverbs 9:1-6 Psalm 34:9-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58 The full texts can be found here. [G]iving thanks to God the Father at all times and for everything… The Greek here uses the Greek word “Eucharist”. It’s the same word for our liturgy today, it’s the same word for every [...]

Revised Common Lectionary: 1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13 Ezekiel 17:22-24 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34 Eastern Rite: Romans 2:10-16 Matthew 4:18-23 When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts [...]

Seventh Sunday after Pascha – the Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council. Eastern Rite Readings: Vespers: Genesis 14:14-20 Deuteronomy 1:8-11 Deuteronomy 10:14-21 Matins: John 21:1-14 (Matins Gospel 10) Liturgy: Acts 20:16-18, 28-36 John 17:1-13 Revised Common Lectionary Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19 And now I am no [...]

Christ is Risen! Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? HE Sixth and final Sunday of Pascha is called the Sunday of the Blind man. In the Eastern Rite, we use the Reading of this story from John. I have to admit that it reads to me as a [...]

Christ is Risen! Sir, I see that you are a prophet. T HAS To be one of the great toss-off lines in the Bible. Jesus shows up, proclaims his messiah-ship and then accuses the woman of serial monogamy. (Why else would she be coming to the well in the middle of the day if not [...]

Christ is Risen! The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up… HE SUNDAY Of the Paralytic is the Fourth Sunday of Pascha in the Eastern Rite. We replace the RCL Gospel this Sunday with the story of the man at the [...]

And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. HIS IS THE Third Sunday of Pacha, and, in the Eastern Rite, it is the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. At least for the Gospel, we depart from [...]