Irreverently Reverend

  Ordinary Time Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through town.   2  A man there named Zacchaeus, a ruler among tax collectors, was rich.   3  He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd.   4  So he ran ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus, who was about to pass that way.   5  When Jesus came to that spot, he looked up and said,  “Zacchaeus, come down at once. I must stay in your home today.”   6  So Zacchaeus came down at once, happy to welcome Jesus. 7  Everyone who saw this grumbled, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” 8  Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have cheated anyone, I repay them four times as much.” 9  Jesus said to him,  “Today, salvation has come to this household because he too is a son of Abraham.   10  The Human One...

  Sixth Sunday of Easter Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.  2  And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  3  And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and be their God; 4  he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.” 5  And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.”  6  Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the sp...

  Fifth Sunday after Epiphany   In the year of King Uzziah’s death , I saw the Lord sitting on a high and exalted throne, the edges of his robe filling the temple.  2  Winged creatures were stationed around him. Each had six wings: with two they veiled their faces, with two their feet, and with two they flew about.  3  They shouted to each other, saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heavenly forces! All the earth is filled with God’s glory!” 4  The doorframe shook at the sound of their shouting, and the house was filled with smoke. 5  I said, “Mourn for me; I’m ruined! I’m a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips. Yet I’ve seen the king, the Lord of heavenly forces!” 6  Then one of the winged creatures flew to me, holding a glowing coal that he had taken from the altar with tongs.  7  He touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips. Your guilt has departed, ...

  Third Sunday after Epiphany For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.  13  For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. 14  Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many.  15  If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  16  And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.  17  If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?  18  But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.  19  If all were a single member, where would the body be?  20...