Category: Wellspring of the Word

18 April 2022 Easter Monday

This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you both see and hear. From Acts 2:14,22-33, NRSV Although we will not celebrate Pentecost…
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17 April 2022 Easter Sunday

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the dead. All the prophets testify about him that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. From Acts 10:34, 37-43, NRSV The words we hear…
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16 April 2022 Holy Saturday

So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air…
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15 April 2022 Good Friday

Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases;yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities;upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed. From Isaiah 52:13-53:12 NRSV Today we hear a long and very…
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14 April 2022 Maundy Thursday

This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance. From Exodus12:1-8,11-14 NRSV In today’s Old Testament reading we hear about the institution of the Passover. Detailed instructions were given as to the selection,…
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13 April 2022 Wednesday of Holy Week

The Lord God has opened my ear,    and I was not rebellious,    I did not turn backwards.I gave my back to those who struck me,    and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;I did not hide my face    from insult and spitting. The Lord God helps me;    therefore I have not been disgraced;therefore I have set my face…
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12 April 2022 Tuesday of Holy Week

And he said to me, ‘You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will be glorified.’But I said, ‘I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity;yet surely my cause is with the Lord, and my reward with my God.’… And now the Lord says… ‘It is too light a thing…
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11 April 2022 Monday of Holy Week

Here is my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights;I have put my spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. From Isaiah 42:1-7, NRSV Today’s Old Testament Reading is from the first of Isaiah’s four “Servant Songs”. Whilst it may not be certain who Isaiah’s subject was,…
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10 April 2022 Palm Sunday

I gave my back to those who struck me,    and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;I did not hide my face    from insult and spitting. The Lord God helps me;    therefore I have not been disgraced;therefore I have set my face like flint,    and I know that I shall not be put to shame; From…
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9 April 2022

Thus says the Lord God: I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them…
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