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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The following are the readings for the Second
Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8), June 26, 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.
Throughout Pentecost the alternate RCL Psalm would normally be used with the
alternate RCL O. T. reading. Note also that the Canadian RCL does not have the
alternative readings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>OLD TESTAMENT: Genesis 22: 1 - 14 (RCL)
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Gene 22:1 (NRSV) After these things God tested
Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 2 He said, "Take
your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mori'ah, and
offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show
you." 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two
of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt
offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown
him. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away. 5 Then
Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go
over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you." 6 Abraham took
the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself
carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together. 7 Isaac
said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said,
"The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8
Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son."
So the two of them walked on together. <BR>9 When they came to the place that
God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He
bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then
Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. 11 But the
angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And
he said, "Here I am." 12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do
anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld
your son, your only son, from me." 13 And Abraham looked up and saw a ram,
caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it
up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place "The
LORD will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the LORD it
shall be provided." </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Genesis 32: 22 - 32 (Can. BAS)</DIV>
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<DIV>Gene 32:22 (NRSV) The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two
maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 He took
them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24
Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25 When the
man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket;
and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26 Then he said,
"Let me go, for the day is breaking." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go,
unless you bless me." 27 So he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said,
"Jacob." 28 Then the man said, "You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,
for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed." 29 Then
Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you
ask my name?" And there he blessed him. 30 So Jacob called the place Peniel,
saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved." 31 The
sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. 32 Therefore
to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip
socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>2 Kings 4: 8 - 11, 14 - 16a (Roman Catholic) </DIV>
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<DIV>2Kin 4:8 (NRSV) One day Eli'sha was passing through Shu'nem, where a
wealthy woman lived, who urged him to have a meal. So whenever he passed that
way, he would stop there for a meal. 9 She said to her husband, "Look, I am sure
that this man who regularly passes our way is a holy man of God. 10 Let us make
a small roof chamber with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair,
and a lamp, so that he can stay there whenever he comes to us." <BR>11 One day
when he came there, he went up to the chamber and lay down there. <BR>14 [Later
Elisha asked,] "What then may be done for her?" Geha'zi answered, "Well, she has
no son, and her husband is old." 15 He said, "Call her." When he had called her,
she stood at the door. 16 He said, "At this season, in due time, you shall
embrace a son." </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Jeremiah 28: 5 - 9 (alt. for RCL) </DIV>
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<DIV>Jere 28:5 (NRSV) Then the prophet Jeremi'ah spoke to the prophet Hanani'ah
in the presence of the priests and all the people who were standing in the house
of the LORD; 6 and the prophet Jeremi'ah said, "Amen! May the LORD do so; may
the LORD fulfill the words that you have prophesied, and bring back to this
place from Babylon the vessels of the house of the LORD, and all the exiles. 7
But listen now to this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of
all the people. 8 The prophets who preceded you and me from ancient times
prophesied war, famine, and pestilence against many countries and great
kingdoms. 9 As for the prophet who prophesies peace, when the word of that
prophet comes true, then it will be known that the LORD has truly sent the
prophet." </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>PSALM 13 (RCL) </DIV>
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<DIV>Psal 13:1 (NRSV) How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? <BR>How long
will you hide your face from me? <BR>2 How long must I bear pain in my soul,
<BR>and have sorrow in my heart all day long? <BR>How long shall my enemy be
exalted over me? <BR>3 Consider and answer me, O LORD my God! <BR>Give light to
my eyes, or I will sleep the sleep of death, <BR>4 and my enemy will say, "I
have prevailed"; <BR>my foes will rejoice because I am shaken. <BR>5 But I
trusted in your steadfast love; <BR>my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
<BR>6 I will sing to the LORD, <BR>because he has dealt bountifully with me.
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<DIV><BR>Psalm 89: 1 - 4, 15 - 18 (alt. for RCL) <BR>Psalm 89: 1 - 2, 15 - 18
(Roman Catholic) </DIV>
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<DIV>Psal 89:1 (NRSV) I will sing of your steadfast love, O LORD, forever;
<BR>with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. <BR>2 I
declare that your steadfast love is established forever; <BR>your faithfulness
is as firm as the heavens. <BR>3 You said, "I have made a covenant with my
chosen one, <BR>I have sworn to my servant David: <BR>4 "I will establish your
descendants forever, <BR>and build your throne for all generations.'" [Se'lah]
<BR>5 Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, <BR>your faithfulness in the
assembly of the holy ones. </DIV>
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<DIV>15 Happy are the people who know the festal shout, <BR>who walk, O LORD, in
the light of your countenance; <BR>16 they exult in your name all day long,
<BR>and extol your righteousness. <BR>17 For you are the glory of their
strength; <BR>by your favor our horn is exalted. <BR>18 For our shield belongs
to the LORD, <BR>our king to the Holy One of Israel. </DIV>
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<DIV>Note: Verse numbering in Roman Catholic bibles is one higher than the
above. </DIV>
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<DIV>NEW TESTAMENT: Romans 6: 12 - 23 (RCL) </DIV>
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<DIV>Roma 6:12 (NRSV) Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal
bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 No longer present your members to
sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who
have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as
instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since
you are not under law but under grace. <BR>15 What then? Should we sin because
we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if
you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one
whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads
to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that you, having once been slaves of
sin, have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you
were entrusted, 18 and that you, having been set free from sin, have become
slaves of righteousness. 19 I am speaking in human terms because of your natural
limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity
and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to
righteousness for sanctification. <BR>20 When you were slaves of sin, you were
free in regard to righteousness. 21 So what advantage did you then get from the
things of which you now are ashamed? The end of those things is death. 22 But
now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get
is sanctification. The end is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death,
but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Romans 6: 3 - 4, 8 - 11 (Roman Catholic) </DIV>
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<DIV>Roma 6:3 (NRSV) Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into
Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with
him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by
the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. </DIV>
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<DIV>8 But if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with
him. 9 We know that Christ, being raised from the dead, will never die again;
death no longer has dominion over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin,
once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 So you also must
consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>GOSPEL: Matthew 10: 40 - 42 (RCL)
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Matthew 10: 37 - 42 (Roman Catholic) </DIV>
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<DIV>Matt 10:37 (NRSV) Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy
of me; and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38
and whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39
Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my
sake will find it. <BR>40 "Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever
welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. 41 Whoever welcomes a prophet in the
name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a
righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of
the righteous; 42 and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these
little ones in the name of a disciple--truly I tell you, none of these will lose
their reward." <BR></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
href="mailto:cwohlers@bridgew.edu">cwohlers@bridgew.edu</A><BR></DIV></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>