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Lectionary Theme: Beginning of the Great Lent: Jesus who transforms everything
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Deuteronomy 30:1-10 First Lesson
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Revelation 21:1-8 Second Lesson
1. Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
2. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and be their God;
4. he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.”
5. And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
6. Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
7. Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.
8. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
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Romans 12:1-3 Epistle
1. I appeal to you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
2. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.
3. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
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John 2:1-11 Gospel
1. On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
4. And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to me and to you? My hour has not yet come.”
5. His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6. Now standing there were six stone water jars for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7. Jesus said to them, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8. He said to them, “Now draw some out, and take it to the person in charge of the banquet.” So they took it.
9. When the person in charge tasted the water that had become wine and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), that person called the bridegroom
10. and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
11. Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.