Dylan's lectionary blog
Sarah Dylan Breuer offers reflections on readings for the coming Sunday in the lectionary of the Episcopal Church (USA).
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- Third Sunday in Lent, Year C
Exodus 3:1-15 - link to NRSV text Luke 13:1-9 - link to NRSV text The General Ordination Exams (GOEs) one generally has to take to be ordained to the clergy in The Episcopal Church often cause seminarians preparing for them a great deal of anxiety, and sometimes they deal with this by rehearsing with their friends some previous years' questions or questions they think they might be asked. One genre of GOE (or at least GOEs of the past) is the "coffee hour question," which asks the person being examined to imagine him or herself as a priest approached by... - Second Sunday in Lent, Year C
Luke 13:31-35 - link to NRSV text I have a feeling that a lot of people will react to this Sunday's gospel by remarking that politics make strange bedfellows. Commentators' chief concern in the passage is often to puzzle over Luke's portrayal of the Pharisees. In Luke 12:1, Jesus warns, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, their hypocrisy." But Jesus also dines with Pharisees at their invitation. Luke in his narrator's voice says, as if none of his readers would think of contesting him, that the Pharisees "were lovers of money" (Luke 16:14). But in this Sunday's... - First Sunday in Lent, Year C
Deuteronomy 26:1-11 - link to NRSV text Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 - link to BCP text Romans 10:8b-13 - link to NRSV text Luke 4:1-13 - link to NRSV text Over Advent and Christmas in 2004/2005, I was working in a parish where I was on the regular rota of preachers. On this particular year, I preached on December 19 -- the last Sunday of Advent -- and then again on January 2, in the season of Christmas. Had you asked me a month ahead of time what the thematic shift between those two sermons were going to be like, I... - Last Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
Dear All, While you're waiting for something new for me on the readings for this Sunday (I have to apologize, but immediate practical concerns have gotten in the way of my posting thus far), I hope these previous entries on gospel stories of Jesus' transfiguration (and I always end up saying more about Luke -- it's my favorite gospel, after all) will prove helpful. Thanks for your patience, folks. Blessings, Dylan [Update 02-17-07: I apologize -- life got in the way, and I just didn't have it in me to come up with an entirely new creation this week, despite... - Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C
Luke 6:17-26 - link to NRSV text If you haven't seen this sermon of mine on Matthew's version of the Beatitudes, please do. (This sermon of mine on Luke's version is far weaker, I'm sorry to say, but may still be helpful -- especially when supplemented by this lectionary blog entry on Luke's "Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man," which I connect directly to Luke's Beatitudes and woes.) I'm not going to soft-pedal: these are hard readings we've got this Sunday -- at least for people like me. By "people like me," I mean the comfortable, the privileged, those...
