Sunday Readings in Context
This Sunday’s Readings in Context
Parishioner Tom O’Brien, a Canon and Examining Chaplain for Scripture of this diocese, writes brief background descriptions of the Sunday readings.
We thank Tom for sharing his learning and love of Scripture with us in this way.
Sunday’s Readings for February 4, 2024
Isaiah 40:21-31 Reading 21 Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, who...
Sunday’s Readings for January 28, 2024
Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Reading 15 Moses said: The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. 16 This is what you requested of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said: “If...
Sunday’s Readings for January 21, 2024
Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Reading 1 The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was...