Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 6:1-13 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus] came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astounded. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What is this wisdom that has been given to him? What deeds of power are being done by his hands! Is…
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
GOSPEL Mark 4:1-9 The holy gospel according to Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. Again he began to teach beside the sea. Such a very large crowd gathered around him that he got into a boat on the sea and sat there, while the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: Listen! A sower went out…
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 4:35-41 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. When evening had come, [Jesus said to the disciples,] “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being…
Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 4:26-34 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus] said, “The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout and grow, he does not know how. The earth produces of itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head. But when the grain…
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 3:20-35 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus went home;] and the crowd came together again, so that [Jesus and the disciples] could not even eat. When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by…
Second Sunday of Pentecost
Gospel: Mark 2:23-3:6 A reading from the Gospel of Mark. Glory to you, O Lord. One sabbath [Jesus] was going through the grain fields; and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his…
Trinity Sunday
John 3:1-17 The holy gospel according to John.Glory to you, O Lord. Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no…
Day of Pentecost
Reading: Acts 2:1-21 A reading from the book of Acts. When the day of Pentecost had come, [the apostles] were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them…
Ascension of Our Lord
Gospel: Luke 24:44-53 A reading from the Gospel of John. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said to the eleven and those with them,] “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them,…
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Gospel: John 15:9-17 A reading from the Gospel of John. Glory to you, O Lord. [Jesus said:] “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be…