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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The following are the readings for the Third Sunday
after Pentecost, June 13, (Proper 6) 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>OLD TESTAMENT: 1 Kings 21: 1 - 10, (11 - 14), 15 - 21a
(RCL)</DIV>
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<DIV>1Kin 21:1 (NRSV) Later the following events took place: Na'both the
Jez'reelite had a vineyard in Jez'reel, beside the palace of King A'hab of
Samaria. 2 And A'hab said to Na'both, "Give me your vineyard, so that I may have
it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house; I will give you a better
vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in
money." 3 But Na'both said to A'hab, "The LORD forbid that I should give you my
ancestral inheritance." 4 A'hab went home resentful and sullen because of what
Na'both the Jez'reelite had said to him; for he had said, "I will not give you
my ancestral inheritance." He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and
would not eat.<BR>5 His wife Jez'ebel came to him and said, "Why are you so
depressed that you will not eat?" 6 He said to her, "Because I spoke to Na'both
the Jez'reelite and said to him, "Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if
you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it'; but he answered, "I will
not give you my vineyard.'" 7 His wife Jez'ebel said to him, "Do you now govern
Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful; I will give you the vineyard of
Na'both the Jez'reelite."<BR>8 So she wrote letters in A'hab's name and sealed
them with his seal; she sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived
with Na'both in his city. 9 She wrote in the letters, "Proclaim a fast, and seat
Na'both at the head of the assembly; 10 seat two scoundrels opposite him, and
have them bring a charge against him, saying, "You have cursed God and the
king.' Then take him out, and stone him to death." 11 The men of his city, the
elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jez'ebel had sent Lord
to them. Just as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them, 12
they proclaimed a fast and seated Na'both at the head of the assembly. 13 The
two scoundrels came in and sat opposite him; and the scoundrels brought a charge
against Na'both, in the presence of the people, saying, "Na'both cursed God and
the king." So they took him outside the city, and stoned him to death. 14 Then
they sent to Jez'ebel, saying, "Na'both has been stoned; he is dead."<BR>15 As
soon as Jez'ebel heard that Na'both had been stoned and was dead, Jez'ebel said
to A'hab, "Go, take possession of the vineyard of Na'both the Jez'reelite, which
he refused to give you for money; for Na'both is not alive, but dead." 16 As
soon as A'hab heard that Na'both was dead, A'hab set out to go down to the
vineyard of Na'both the Jez'reelite, to take possession of it.<BR>17 Then the
word of the LORD came to Eli'jah the Tish'bite, saying: 18 Go down to meet King
A'hab of Israel, who rules {Heb [who is]} in Samaria; he is now in the vineyard
of Na'both, where he has gone to take possession. 19 You shall say to him, "Thus
says the LORD: Have you killed, and also taken possession?" You shall say to
him, "Thus says the LORD: In the place where dogs licked up the blood of
Na'both, dogs will also lick up your blood." <BR>20 A'hab said to Eli'jah, "Have
you found me, O my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you. Because you have sold
yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the LORD, 21 I will bring disaster
on you;</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>2 Samuel 11: 26 - 12: 10 (alt. for RCL) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>2Sam 11:26 (NRSV) When the wife of Uri'ah heard that her husband was dead,
she made lamentation for him. 27 When the mourning was over, David sent and
brought her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. <BR>But
the thing that David had done displeased the LORD, 12:1 and the LORD sent Nathan
to David. He came to him, and said to him, "There were two men in a certain
city, the one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had very many flocks and
herds; 3 but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had
bought. He brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used
to eat of his meager fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it
was like a daughter to him. 4 Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he
was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who
had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared that for the
guest who had come to him." 5 Then David's anger was greatly kindled against the
man. He said to Nathan, "As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves
to die; 6 he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and
because he had no pity." <BR>7 Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says
the LORD, the God of Israel: I anointed you king over Israel, and I rescued you
from the hand of Saul; 8 I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives
into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had
been too little, I would have added as much more. 9 Why have you despised the
word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uri'ah
the Hit'tite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have
killed him with the sword of the Am'monites. 10 Now therefore the sword shall
never depart from your house, for you have despised me, and have taken the wife
of Uri'ah the Hit'tite to be your wife. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>1 Kings 19: 1 - 8 (Can. BAS) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1Kin 19:1 (NRSV) A'hab told Jez'ebel all that Eli'jah had done, and how he
had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jez'ebel sent a messenger to
Eli'jah, saying, "So may the gods do to me, and more also, if I do not make your
life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." 3 Then he was afraid;
he got up and fled for his life, and came to Be'er-she'ba, which belongs to
Judah; he left his servant there. <BR>4 But he himself went a day's journey into
the wilderness, and came and sat down under a solitary broom tree. He asked that
he might die: "It is enough; now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better
than my ancestors." 5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep.
Suddenly an angel touched him and said to him, "Get up and eat." 6 He looked,
and there at his head was a cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate
and drank, and lay down again. 7 The angel of the LORD came a second time,
touched him, and said, "Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much
for you." 8 He got up, and ate and drank; then he went in the strength of that
food forty days and forty nights to Ho'reb the mount of God. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Genesis 14: 18 - 20 (Roman Catholic)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gene 14:18 (NRSV) And King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine;
he was priest of God Most High. <BR>19 He blessed him and said, <BR>""Blessed be
Abram by God Most High, <BR>maker of heaven and earth; <BR>20 and blessed be God
Most High, <BR>who has delivered your enemies into your hand!" And Abram gave
him one-tenth of everything. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>PSALM 5: 1 - 8 (RCL) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Psal 5:1 (NRSV) Give ear to my words, O LORD; <BR>give heed to my sighing.
<BR>2 Listen to the sound of my cry, <BR>my King and my God, <BR>for to you I
pray. <BR>3 O LORD, in the morning you hear my voice; <BR>in the morning I plead
my case to you, and watch. <BR>4 For you are not a God who delights in
wickedness; <BR>evil will not sojourn with you. <BR>5 The boastful will not
stand before your eyes; <BR>you hate all evildoers. <BR>6 You destroy those who
speak lies; <BR>the LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful. <BR>7 But I,
through the abundance of your steadfast love, <BR>will enter your house, <BR>I
will bow down toward your holy temple <BR>in awe of you. <BR>8 Lead me, O LORD,
in your righteousness <BR>because of my enemies; <BR>make your way straight
before me. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Psalm 32 (alt. for RCL) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Psal 32:1 (NRSV) Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, <BR>whose
sin is covered. <BR>2 Happy are those to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity,
<BR>and in whose spirit there is no deceit. <BR>3 While I kept silence, my body
wasted away <BR>through my groaning all day long. <BR>4 For day and night your
hand was heavy upon me; <BR>my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer.
[Se'lah] <BR>5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, <BR>and I did not hide my
iniquity; <BR>I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD," <BR>and
you forgave the guilt of my sin. [Se'lah] <BR>6 Therefore let all who are
faithful <BR>offer prayer to you; <BR>at a time of distress, the rush of mighty
waters <BR>shall not reach them. <BR>7 You are a hiding place for me; <BR>you
preserve me from trouble; <BR>you surround me with glad cries of deliverance.
[Se'lah] <BR>8 I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; <BR>I
will counsel you with my eye upon you. <BR>9 Do not be like a horse or a mule,
without understanding, <BR>whose temper must be curbed with bit and bridle,
<BR>else it will not stay near you. <BR>10 Many are the torments of the wicked,
<BR>but steadfast love surrounds those who trust in the LORD. <BR>11 Be glad in
the LORD and rejoice, O righteous, <BR>and shout for joy, all you upright in
heart. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>42 Quemadmodum (Can.
BAS)<BR> <BR>1 As the deer longs for the water-brooks,
*<BR> so longs my soul for you, O God.<BR> <BR>2 My
soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God; *<BR> when shall
I come to appear before the presence of God?<BR> <BR>3 My tears
have been my food day and night, *<BR> while all day long they say to
me,<BR> "Where now is your God?"<BR> <BR>4 I pour
out my soul when I think on these things; *<BR> how I went with the
multitude and led them into the<BR> house of
God,<BR> <BR>5 With the voice of praise and thanksgiving,
*<BR> among those who keep holy-day.<BR> <BR>6 Why
are you so full of heaviness, O my soul? *<BR> and why are you so
disquieted within me?<BR> <BR>7 Put your trust in God;
*<BR> for I will yet give thanks to him,<BR> who is the
help of my countenance, and my God.<BR> <BR>8 My soul is heavy
within me; *<BR> therefore I will remember you from the land of
Jordan,<BR> and from the peak of Mizar among the heights of
Hermon.<BR> <BR>9 One deep calls to another in the noise of
your cataracts; *<BR> all your rapids and floods have gone over
me.<BR> <BR>10 The Lord grants his loving-kindness in the
daytime; *<BR> in the night season his song is with
me,<BR> a prayer to the God of my life.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>11 I will say to the God of my strength,<BR>“Why have you
forgotten me? *<BR> and why do I go so heavily while the
enemy<BR> oppresses me?”<BR> <BR>12 While my bones
are being broken, *<BR> my enemies mock me to my
face;<BR> <BR>13 All day long they mock me *<BR> and
say to me, “Where now is your God?”<BR> <BR>14 Why are you so
full of heaviness, O my soul? *<BR> and why are you so disquieted
within me?<BR> <BR>15 Put your trust in God;
*<BR> for I will yet give thanks to him,<BR> who is the
help of my countenance, and my God.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Psalm 110: 1 - 4 (Roman Catholic)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Psal 110:1 (NRSV) {Of David. A Psalm.} The LORD says to my lord, <BR>""Sit
at my right hand <BR>until I make your enemies your footstool." <BR>2 The LORD
sends out from Zion <BR>your mighty scepter. <BR>Rule in the midst of your foes.
<BR>3 Your people will offer themselves willingly <BR>on the day you lead your
forces <BR>on the holy mountains. <BR>From the womb of the morning, <BR>like
dew, your youth will come to you. <BR>4 The LORD has sworn and will not change
his mind, <BR>""You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek."
</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>NEW TESTAMENT: Galatians 2: 15 - 21 (RCL) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Gala 2:15 (NRSV) We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16
yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through
faith in Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we
might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by doing the works of the law,
because no one will be justified by the works of the law. 17 But if, in our
effort to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have been found to be sinners, is
Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 But if I build up again the very
things that I once tore down, then I demonstrate that I am a transgressor. 19
For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God. I have been
crucified with Christ; 20 and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who
lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God;
for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>1 Corinthians 11: 23 - 26 (Roman Catholic)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1Cor 11:23 (NRSV) For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to
you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread,
24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body that is
for you. Do this in remembrance of me." 25 In the same way he took the cup also,
after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as
often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." 26 For as often as you eat this
bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>GOSPEL: Luke 7: 36 - 8: 3 (RCL) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Luke 7:36 (NRSV) One of the Phar'isees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he
went into the Phar'isee's house and took his place at the table. 37 And a woman
in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the
Phar'isee's house, brought an alabaster jar of ointment. 38 She stood behind him
at his feet, weeping, and began to bathe his feet with her tears and to dry them
with her hair. Then she continued kissing his feet and anointing them with the
ointment. 39 Now when the Phar'isee who had invited him saw it, he said to
himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of
woman this is who is touching him--that she is a sinner." 40 Jesus spoke up and
said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." "Teacher," he replied,
"Speak." 41 "A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii,
and the other fifty. 42 When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both
of them. Now which of them will love him more?" 43 Simon answered, "I suppose
the one for whom he canceled the greater debt." And Jesus said to him, "You have
judged rightly." 44 Then turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see
this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has
bathed my feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. 45 You gave me no
kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You
did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment. 47
Therefore, I tell you, her sins, which were many, have been forgiven; hence she
has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little." 48
Then he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." 49 But those who were at the
table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives
sins?" 50 And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you; go in peace." 8:1
Soon afterwards he went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing
the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him, 2 as well as some
women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary, called
Mag'dalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, 3 and Joan'na, the wife of
Herod's steward Chu'za, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them out
of their resources.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><BR>Luke 9: 11b - 17 (Roman Catholic)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Luke 9:11 (NRSV) [Jesus] spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed
those who needed to be cured. <BR>12 The day was drawing to a close, and the
twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away, so that they may go into the
surrounding villages and countryside, to lodge and get provisions; for we are
here in a deserted place." 13 But he said to them, "You give them something to
eat." They said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish-unless we are to
go and buy food for all these people." 14 For there were about five thousand
men. And he said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty
each." 15 They did so and made them all sit down. 16 And taking the five loaves
and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke them, and gave
them to the disciples to set before the crowd. 17 And all ate and were filled.
What was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces. </DIV>
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<DIV>Chad Wohlers<BR>Woodbury, Vermont USA<BR><A
href="mailto:chadwohl@satucket.com">chadwohl@satucket.com</A><BR><A
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