Season Two: Episode 30

Readings for June 6, 2021

Eastern Orthodox Icon of Jesus

Protestant Churches

  • Genesis 3:8-15
  • (Alt.) 1 Samuel 8:4-20  11:14-15
  • Psalm 130
  • (Alt.) Psalm 138
  • 2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1
  • Mark 3:20-35

Catholic Mass: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

  • Exodus 24:3-8
  • Psalm 116:12-13, 15-18
  • Hebrews 9:11-15
  • Mark 14:12-16, 22-26

Season Two: Episode 29

Readings for May 23, 2021

Holy Trinity Sunday

Trinity in Glory ( c1552-1554 ) by Tiziano Vecellio “Titian” (c.1488-1576)

Catholic Mass

  • Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40
  • Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22
  • Romans 8:12-17 (Read in some Protestant Churches)
  • Matthew 28:16-20

Protestant

  • Isaiah 6:1-8
  • Psalm 29
  • Acts 2:14a, 22-36
  • John 3:1-17

Season Two: Episode 28

Readings for May 23, 2021

Pentecost

Pentecost ( between circa 1310 – 1318) by Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267- 1337)
  • Ezekiel 37:1-14 
  • (Alt)  Acts 2:1-21
  • Psalm 104:24-34, 35b (30) 
  • (Alt)  Psalm 139:1-12 (13-16)
  • Romans 8:22-27  
  • 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13  (Catholic Mass) 
  • Galatians 5:16-25 (Alt Catholic Mass)
  • John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15  
  • John 20:19-23  (Catholic Mass)

Season Two: Episode 27

Readings for 

May 16, 2021

The Seventh Sunday of Easter or The Ascension of Our Lord

Ascension (c.1305) by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337)

The Seventh Sunday of Easter

  • Acts 1:12-26
  • Psalm 1
  • Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20  (Catholic Mass)
  • 1 John 5:9-15
  • 1 John 4:11-16 (Catholic Mass)
  • John 17:11b-19

Ascension of Our Lord

  • Acts 1:1-11
  • Psalm 47
  • Ephesians 1:15-23
  • Ephesians 4:1-13  (Alt) 
  • Mark 16:15-20  (Catholic Mass)
  • Luke 24:44-53 (Protestant churches)

Season Two: Episode 26

Readings for 

May 9, 2021

The Sixth Sunday of Easter

The Communion of the Apostles (1660)
By Luca Giordano  (1634–1705)
  • Acts 10:34-48
  • Psalm 98
  • 1 Jn 4:7-10 (Catholic Mass)
  • 1 John 5:1-8
  • John 15:9-17