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May 08, 2024

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Lectionary Theme: St. John’s Day

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    1. Listen to me in silence, O coastlands; let the peoples renew their strength; let them approach, then let them speak; let us together draw near for judgment.

    2. Who has roused a victor from the east, summoned him to his service? He delivers up nations to him, and tramples kings under foot; he makes them like dust with his sword, like driven stubble with his bow.

    3. He pursues them and passes on safely, scarcely touching the path with his feet.

    4. Who has performed and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am first, and will be with the last.

    5. The coastlands have seen and are afraid, the ends of the earth tremble; they have drawn near and come.

    6. Each one helps the other, saying to one another, “Take courage!”

    7. The artisan encourages the goldsmith, and the one who smooths with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, “It is good”; and they fasten it with nails so that it cannot be moved.

    8. But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend;

    9. you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, saying to you, “You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you off”;

    10. do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.

    11. Yes, all who are incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced; those who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

    12. You shall seek those who contend with you, but you shall not find them; those who war against you shall be as nothing at all.

    13. For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.”

    14. Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you insect Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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    1. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place; he made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

    2. who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

    3. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.

    4. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne,

    5. and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

    6. and made us to be a kingdom, priests serving his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

    7. Look! He is coming with the clouds; every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; and on his account all the tribes of the earth will wail. So it is to be. Amen.

    8. “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. A Vision of Christ

    9. I, John, your brother who share with you in Jesus the persecution and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

    10. I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet

    11. saying, “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

    12. Then I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me, and on turning I saw seven golden lampstands,

    13. and in the midst of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man, clothed with a long robe and with a golden sash across his chest.

    14. His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire,

    15. his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.

    16. In his right hand he held seven stars, and from his mouth came a sharp, two-edged sword, and his face was like the sun shining with full force.

    17. When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last,

    18. and the living one. I was dead, and see, I am alive forever and ever; and I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

    19. Now write what you have seen, what is, and what is to take place after this.

    20. As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

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    25. And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

    26. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

    27. Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.