[Propertalk] READINGS for the DAY of PENTECOST

[Charles Wohlers]

The following are the readings for the Day of Pentecost, June 12, according to the Revised Common (RCL), Episcopal (ECUSA), Roman Catholic, Canadian BAS, and the Church of England (Common Worship) lectionaries. All readings are taken from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible. Unless noted otherwise, the ECUSA, Canadian and C of E lectionaries are identical to the RCL for this day.

The readings are posted on our web site: <http://satucket.com/lectionary>, in RTF format, which can be read by all word processors.



FIRST READING: Acts 2: 1 - 21 (RCL) 
                                Acts 2: 1 - 11 (Roman Catholic) 

Acts 2:1 (NRSV) When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 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. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 
5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Par'thians, Medes, E'lamites, and residents of Mesopota'mia, Judea and Cappado'cia, Pon'tus and Asia, 10 Phryg'ia and Pamphyl'ia, Egypt and the parts of Lib'ya belonging to Cyre'ne, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cre'tans and A'rabs--in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power." 12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?" 13 But others sneered and said, "They are filled with new wine." 
14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o'clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Jo'el: 
17 "In the last days it will be, God declares, 
that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, 
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, 
and your young men shall see visions, 
and your old men shall dream dreams. 
18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women, 
in those days I will pour out my Spirit; 
and they shall prophesy. 
19 And I will show portents in the heaven above 
and signs on the earth below, 
blood, and fire, and smoky mist. 
20 The sun shall be turned to darkness 
and the moon to blood, 
before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day. 
21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.' 


Numbers 11: 24 - 30 (alt. for RCL) 

Numb 11:24 (NRSV) So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. 25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again. 
26 Two men remained in the camp, one named El'dad, and the other named Me'dad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp. 27 And a young man ran and told Moses, "El'dad and Me'dad are prophesying in the camp." 28 And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, "My lord Moses, stop them!" 29 But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the LORD's people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit on them!" 30 And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. 


Isaiah 44: 1 - 8   (alt. for Can. BAS)

Isai 44:1 (NRSV) But now hear, O Jacob my servant, 
Israel whom I have chosen! 
2 Thus says the LORD who made you, 
who formed you in the womb and will help you: 
Do not fear, O Jacob my servant, 
Jeshurun whom I have chosen. 
3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, 
and streams on the dry ground; 
I will pour my spirit upon your descendants, 
and my blessing on your offspring. 
4 They shall spring up like a green tamarisk, 
like willows by flowing streams. 
5 This one will say, "I am the LORD's," 
another will be called by the name of Jacob, 
yet another will write on the hand, "The LORD's," 
and adopt the name of Israel. 
6 Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel, 
and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: 
I am the first and I am the last; 
besides me there is no god. 
7 Who is like me? Let them proclaim it, 
let them declare and set it forth before me. 
Who has announced from of old the things to come? 
Let them tell us what is yet to be. 
8 Do not fear, or be afraid; 
have I not told you from of old and declared it? 
You are my witnesses! 
Is there any god besides me? 
There is no other rock; I know not one. 


PSALM 104: 24 - 34, 35b (RCL) 
Psalm 104: 1a, 24, 29 - 31, 34 (Roman Catholic) 

Psal 104:1 (NRSV) Bless the LORD, O my soul. 
O LORD my God, you are very great. 

24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! 
In wisdom you have made them all; 
the earth is full of your creatures. 
25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, 
creeping things innumerable are there, 
living things both small and great. 
26 There go the ships, 
and Levi'athan that you formed to sport in it. 
27 These all look to you 
to give them their food in due season; 
28 when you give to them, they gather it up; 
when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. 
29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; 
when you take away their breath, they die 
and return to their dust. 
30 When you send forth your spirit, they are created; 
and you renew the face of the ground. 
31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; 
may the LORD rejoice in his works-- 
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles, 
who touches the mountains and they smoke. 
33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; 
I will sing praise to my God while I have being. 
34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, 
for I rejoice in the LORD. 
35 Let sinners be consumed from the earth, 
and let the wicked be no more. 
Bless the LORD, O my soul. 
Praise the LORD! 

Note: Verse numbering in your Psalter may be different from the above. 



SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 12: 3b - 13 (RCL) 
                                1 Corinthians 12: 3b - 7, 12 - 13 (Roman Catholic) 

1Cor 12:3 (NRSV) [N]o one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. 
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. 
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 

Note: If one of the Old Testament readings above were used as the first reading, the passage from Acts should instead be used here. 


GOSPEL: John 20: 19 - 23 (all) 

John 20:19 (NRSV) When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 


John 7: 37 - 39 (alt. for RCL) 

John 7:37 (NRSV) On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, 38 and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, "Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'" 39 Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified. 


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, Vermont    USA
chadwohl at satucket.com
cwohlers at bridgew.edu
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