Weekly Lectionary

Readings for August 20, 2023

Christ and the Canaanite Woman (1594-1595) by Annibale Carracci (1560 – 1609)

• Genesis 45:1-15 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Isaiah 56:1, 6-8
• Psalm 67 
• Psalm 133   (Semi-continuous Series)
• Romans 11:1-2a,13-15, 28-32
• Matthew 15:10-28

Readings for August 13, 2023

Jesus Holds the Sinking Peter on the Sea by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794 –1872)

• Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 (Semi-continuous Series)
• 1 Kings 19:9-18
• Job 38:4-18 
• Psalm 18:1-16 
• Psalm 85:8-14
• Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Romans 9:1-5 (Catholic Mass)
• Romans 10:5-17
• Matthew 14:22-33

Readings for August 6, 2023

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes (1545-50) by Tintoretto (born Jacopo Robusti, 1518-1594)

Protestant Churches

• Genesis 32:22-31 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Isaiah 55:1-5 
• Psalm 17:1-7, 15 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26
• Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21
• Romans 9:1-13
• Matthew 14:13-21

Catholic 

• Daniel 7:9-14
• Psalm 97
• 2 Peter 1:16-19
• Matthew 17:1-9

Readings for July 30, 2023

Parable of the Mustard Seed, Etching by Jan Luyken (1649–1712)

• Genesis 29:15-28 
• Deuteronomy 7:6-9
• 1 Kings 3:5-12 
• Psalm 105:1-11, 45b 
• Psalm 119: 57, 72, 76-77, 127-136
• Psalm 125 
• Psalm 128
• Romans 8:28-39
• Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52

Readings for July 23, 2023

Wheatfield with a Reaper (1889) by Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

• Isaiah 44:6-8
• Genesis 28:10-19a. (Semi-continuous Series)
• Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19 
• Psalm 86: 5-17
• Psalm 119:57-64
• Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Romans 8:12-27
• Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Readings for July 16, 2023

Sower at Sunset (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh (1853 –1890)

• Isaiah 55:10-13
• Genesis 25:19-34  (Semi-continuous Series)
• Psalm 65:1-14 
• Psalm 119:105-112 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Romans 8:1-17
• Matthew 13:1-23

Readings for July 9, 2023

Christ Blessing (c. 1311) by Segna di Bonaventura (active in Siena by 1298–died 1326/31)

• Zechariah 9:9-12 
• Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Psalm 145:1-14 
• Psalm 45:10-17 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Song of Solomon 2:8-13  (Semi-continuous Series)
• Romans 7:14-25
• Romans 8:9, 11-13. (Catholic Mass)
• Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Readings for July 2, 2023

Abraham and the sacrifice of his son Isaac (c.1598) by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625)

• Genesis 22:1-14  (Semi-continuous Series)
• 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16 (Catholic Mass)
• Jeremiah 28:5-9 
• Psalm 13 (Semi-continuous Series)
• Psalm 89:1-4, 15-19 
• Psalm 119:153-160 
• Romans 6:12-23 
• Romans 7:1-13
• Matthew 10:34-42

Readings for June 25, 2023

Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter (c. 1636-40) by Nicholas Poussin 1594 –1665)

• Jeremiah 20:7-13 
• Genesis 21:8-21 (Semi-continuous)
• Psalm 69:1-18 / 33-35
• Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17 (Semi-continuous)
• Psalm 91 (Alternative)
• Romans 5:12-15 (Catholic Mass)
• Romans 6:1-11 
• Matthew 10:5, 21-39

Readings for June 18, 2023

Abraham and the Three Angels (1656) by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (1621 –1674)

• Exodus 19:2-8
• Genesis 18:1-15 [21:1-7] (Alternative) 
• Psalm 100 
• Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19. (Alternative)
• Romans 5:1-15
• Matthew 9:35- 10 -23