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Lectionary Theme: Beginning of the 130th Session of Maramon Convention, God’s Sublime Creation
lsaiah 40:12-26 First Lesson
12. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
13. Who has directed the spirit of the Lord, or as his counselor has instructed him?
14. Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice? Who taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
15. Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
16. Lebanon would not provide fuel enough, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.
17. All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
18. To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?
19. An idol? —A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.
20. As a gift one chooses mulberry wood —wood that will not rot— then seeks out a skilled artisan to set up an image that will not topple.
21. Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22. It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;
23. who brings princes to naught, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
24. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
25. To whom then will you compare me, or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
26. Lift up your eyes on high and see: Who created these? He who brings out their host and numbers them, calling them all by name; because he is great in strength, mighty in power, not one is missing.
Romans 8:19-25 Second Lesson
19. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God,
20. for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
21. that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22. We know that the whole creation has been groaning together as it suffers together the pains of labor,
23. and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
24. For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what one already sees?
25. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Colossiand 1:15-20 Epistle
15. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;
16. for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been created through him and for him.
17. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
18. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
19. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
20. and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Matthew 6:26-30 Gospel
26. Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
27. And which of you by worrying can add a single hour to your span of life?
28. And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin,
29. yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.
30. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
Last Available Lectionary Entry (April 1, 2025)
Day: Thursday
Theme: Passover (Maundy) Thursday – Holy Qurbana: Celebration of the Divine plan of salvation
First Lesson: Morning: Exodus 12:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:23-34, Hebrews 9:1-15, St. Matthew 26:17-30
Gospel: Evening: Genesis 22:1-14, 1 Corinthians 11:23-34, Hebrews 5:1-14, St. Matthew 26:31-46