Readings for Trinity 2 (focus text in bold):

Genesis 12:1-4 - The Lord sends Abram out of his own country.
Psalm 15 - "Lord, who shall dwell in thy tabernacle? or who shall rest upon thy holy hill? Even he that leadeth an uncorrupt life"
1 John 3:13-24 - "And this is his commandment, That we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment."
Luke 14:16-24 - "Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.'"

Sermon by the Rev. Adam Rick

Cover art: "Parable of the Great Supper" Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), triptych; St. George's chapel, Waddon

Readings for Trinity 8 (focus texts in bold):

Jeremiah 23:16-24 - the prophet rebukes the false shepherds
Psalm 82 - God stands among princes, he is a judge among gods
Romans 8:12-17 - for as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God
Matthew 7:15-21 - Jesus warns about false teachers

Sermon by the Rev. Adam Rick

Cover art: “The Exhortation to the Apostles” by James J. Tissot, 1886-94, watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Readings for Trinity 2 (focus text in bold):

Genesis 12:1-4 - God calls Abram out of Ur
Psalm 15 - Lord, who may dwell in your tabernacle, and rest on your holy hill?
1 John 3:13-24 - God is greater than our hearts, and he knows all things
Luke 14:16-24 - the parable of the great banquet

Cover art: “Parable of the Great Banquet,” the Brunswick Monogrammist, c. 1525, oil on panel, National Museum of Warsaw, Poland

Whitsunday, commonly called Pentecost (focus texts in bold):

Numbers 11:24-30 - Would God that all the Lord's people were prophets
Psalm 104:24-34 - When your Spirit goes forth, they are made
Acts 2:1-11 - the Spirit falls on the disciples at Pentecost
John 14:15-31a - Jesus promises to make his abode within the disciples

Cover art: Coptic icon of Pentecost, Sts. Peter and Paul Coptic Orthodox Church, Bixby, Oklahoma

Epiphany 3 (focus texts in bold):

Isaiah 25:6-9 - God will prepare a feast for the nations on Mt. Zion
Psalm 114 - Why did you flee, O see? Why did you skip like rams, O mountains?
Romans 12:16b-21 - Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.
John 2:1-11 - turning water into wine at a wedding in Cana of Galilee

Cover art: “Wedding at Cana” by  Jan van Helmont, 1665-1714, pen on paper, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium

All Souls Requiem
Readings from the Burial of the Dead

Isaiah 38:10-20 - the prophet contemplates his own mortality
Psalm 143 - "Quicken me, O Lord, for thy Name's sake"
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - do not grieve as those without hope
John 6:37-40 - Jesus will lose none of his own, and will raise them up on the last day

Cover art: “The Day of the Dead" by William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1859, oil on canvas, Musee de Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France

All Saints' Day (transferred from November 1)
Readings (focus text in bold):

Isaiah 49:5-7 - "I will also make you a light to the Gentiles"
Psalm 87 - they are all born in Zion
Revelation 7:2-4 - a vision of the saints triumphant before the throne
Matthew 5:1-12 - the Beatitudes

Cover art: a traditional Eastern Orthodox icon of the Holy Church, depicting the church as an ark in which are the saints, with Christ at the helm

Trinity 21 readings (focus text in bold):

Genesis 32:24-30 - Jacob wrestles with God
Psalm 90:1-12 - the Song of Moses, the man of God
Ephesians 6:10-20 - the armor of God
John 4:46b-54 - Jesus heals a nobleman's son from a distance

Cover art: “Jacob Wrestling the Angel" by Gustav Dore, engraving 1897

Trinity 20 readings (focus texts in bold):

Proverbs 9:1-6 - Lady Wisdom invites all to a feast
Psalm 145:15-21 - the Lord opens his hands and fills all living things with plenty
Ephesians 5:15-21 - walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise
Matthew 22:1b-14 - parable of the wedding banquet (and a warning!)

Cover art: “Parable of the Great Supper” (detail) by Eugene Burnand, 1900, Winterhur Meseum of Art, Winterthur, Switzerland.