[Propertalk] READINGS for the FIFTH SUNDAY of LENT

[chadwohl at satucket.com]

The following are the readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent, March 29,
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, C of E,  and Canadian lectionaries
are identical to the RCL for this day.



 

 

OLD TESTAMENT: Ezekiel 37: 1 - 14  (RCL) 

                              Ezekiel 37: 12 - 14   (Roman Catholic) 

 

Ezek 37:1 (NRSV) The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by
the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was
full of bones. 2 He led me all around them; there were very many lying in
the valley, and they were very dry. 3 He said to me, "Mortal, can these
bones live?" I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know." 4 Then he said to me,
"Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the
LORD. 5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter
you, and you shall live. 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to
come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall
live; and you shall know that I am the LORD." 

7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly
there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its
bone. 8 I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon
them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he
said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the
breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and
breathe upon these slain, that they may live." 10 I prophesied as he
commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on
their feet, a vast multitude. 

11 Then he said to me, "Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel.
They say, "Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off
completely.' 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD:
I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my
people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 And you shall
know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your
graves, O my people. 14 I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live,
and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD,
have spoken and will act," says the LORD. 

 

 

PSALM 130 (all) 

 

Psal 130:1 (NRSV) Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. 

2 Lord, hear my voice! 

Let your ears be attentive 

to the voice of my supplications! 

3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, 

Lord, who could stand? 

4 But there is forgiveness with you, 

so that you may be revered. 

5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, 

and in his word I hope; 

6 my soul waits for the Lord 

more than those who watch for the morning, 

more than those who watch for the morning. 

7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! 

For with the LORD there is steadfast love, 

and with him is great power to redeem. 

8 It is he who will redeem Israel 

from all its iniquities. 

 

 

130   De profundis   (ECUSA BCP)

1             Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord;

Lord, hear my voice; *

              let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.

2             If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss, *

              O Lord, who could stand?

3             For there is forgiveness with you; *

              therefore you shall be feared.

4             I wait for the Lord; my soul waits for him; *

              in his word is my hope.

5             My soul waits for the Lord,

more than watchmen for the morning, *

              more than watchmen for the morning.

6             O Israel, wait for the Lord, *

              for with the Lord there is mercy;

7             With him there is plenteous redemption, *

              and he shall redeem Israel from all their sins.

 

NEW TESTAMENT: Romans 8: 6 - 11 (RCL) 

                                    Romans 8: 8 - 11 (Roman Catholic) 

 

Roma 8:6 (NRSV) To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind
on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For this reason the mind that is set on
the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God's law--indeed it
cannot, 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 

9 But you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit, since the Spirit of
God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not
belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, though the body is dead because
of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him
who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the
dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit that
dwells in you. 

 

 

GOSPEL: John 11: 1 - 45   (RCL) 

                  John 11: (1 - 2) 3 - 7 (8 - 16) 17 (18 - 19) 20 - 27 (28 -
33a) 33b - 45   (Roman Catholic)

 

John 11:1 (NRSV) Now a certain man was ill, Laz'arus of Beth'any, the
village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 Mary was the one who anointed the
Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Laz'arus was
ill. 3 So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is
ill." 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to
death; rather it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified
through it." 5 Accordingly, though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Laz'arus, 6 after having heard that Laz'arus was ill, he stayed two days
longer in the place where he was. 

7 Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." 8
The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone
you, and are you going there again?" 9 Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve
hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble, because
they see the light of this world. 10 But those who walk at night stumble,
because the light is not in them." 11 After saying this, he told them, "Our
friend Laz'arus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to awaken him." 12
The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all
right." 13 Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they
thought that he was referring merely to sleep. 14 Then Jesus told them
plainly, "Laz'arus is dead. 15 For your sake I am glad I was not there, so
that you may believe. But let us go to him." 16 Thomas, who was called the
Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with
him." 

17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Laz'arus had already been in the tomb
four days. 18 Now Beth'any was near Jerusalem, some two miles away, 19 and
many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their
brother. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him,
while Mary stayed at home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been
here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that God will
give you whatever you ask of him." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will
rise again." 24 Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection on the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection
and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, 26
and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe
this?" 27 She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah,
the Son of God, the one coming into the world." 

28 When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and
told her privately, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." 29 And
when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. 30 Now Jesus had not
yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met
him. 31 The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get
up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was
going to the tomb to weep there. 32 When Mary came where Jesus was and saw
him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my
brother would not have died." 33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews
who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and
deeply moved. 34 He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him,
"Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus began to weep. 36 So the Jews said, "See how
he loved him!" 37 But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes
of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" 

38 Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and
a stone was lying against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha,
the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench
because he has been dead four days." 40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell
you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" 41 So they took
away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for
having heard me. 42 I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for
the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent
me." 43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Laz'arus, come
out!" 44 The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of
cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him, and
let him go." 

45 Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what
Jesus did, believed in him. 

 

 

Chad Wohlers

Woodbury, VT  USA

chadwohl at satucket.com

 

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