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First Sunday of Advent, November 30, 2025: Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44; Psalm 122 Our lectionary begins the new Christian year not with excitement and good wishes for the year to come, but warnings about the end of time. Isaiah starts us off in a hopeful way: “In days to come the mountain of…

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, November 16, 2025: Isaiah 65:17-25; Canticle 9; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13; Luke 21:5-19 We are almost at the end of the liturgical year, and every year at this time, our readings focus on the end times. Our gospel is no exception. Jesus tells his followers that the temple will be destroyed. There…

All Saints Sunday, November 2, 2025: Daniel 7:1-3,15-18; Psalm 149; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6:20-31 Today we celebrate All Saints, the day we remember the saints who have gone before us. The whole range of saints help us see ways to live our lives as Christians. Jesus appears to set high standards in the gospel: Love…

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 24) 19 October 2025: Jeremiah 31:27-34; Psalm 119:97-104; 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5; Luke 18:1-8 Jesus wants his disciples to remember to pray, so, of course, we hear a parable. In this parable we have two people who are apparently stubborn. The widow keeps badgering the judge. The judge does not care…

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 23, October 12, 2025: Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7; Psalm 66:1-11; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 Jeremiah is, as always, telling the people things they do not want to hear. This is a message to the “elders in exile”, so it’s a message to the people who last week were grieving and…

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, 5 October 2025: Lamentations 1:1-6; Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137; 2 Timothy 1:1-14; Luke 17:5-10 How do we hang on to hope? How do we live with grief? All our readings today circle around that question. The answers they give are not the same, but reflect the different ways we respond…

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 14, 2025, Proper 19: Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28; Psalm 14; 1 Timothy 1:12-17; Luke 15:1-10 For thus says the Lord: The whole land shall be a desolation; yet I will not make a full end. (Jer. 4:12) So that’s where we are. The world is a mess, but we’re not at…

Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18, September 7, 2025: Jeremiah 18:1-11; Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17; Philemon 1-21; Luke 14:25-33 For you yourself created my inmost parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thus Psalm 139 reminds us that we were created by God, and that the Lord has been with us always. Yet the…

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, August 31, 2025: Jeremiah 2:4-13; Psalm 81:1, 10-16;Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14 “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers“, our selection from the letter to the Hebrews begins. After all, “by doing that, some have entertained angels without knowing it“. Harking back to the story of Abraham, the writer…

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, August 24, 2025: Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm 71:1-6; Hebrews 12:18-29; Luke 13:10-17 Jeremiah is afraid. “I am only a boy“: how can I be a prophet to the nations? And the Lord, who has already told him that he was appointed for this task in the womb, tells him, “Do not be…