Irreverently Reverend

  Ordinary Time Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.  11  He came to a certain place and stayed there for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place.  12  And he dreamed that there was a stairway set up on the earth, the top of it reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  13  And the Lord stood beside him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,  14  and your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your offspring.  15  Know that I am with you and will keep you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land...

  Ordinary Time These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham was the father of Isaac,  20  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.  21  Isaac prayed to the Lord for his wife because she was barren, and the Lord granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.  22  The children struggled together within her, and she said, “If it is to be this way, why do I live?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.  23  And the Lord said to her, “Two nations are in your womb,     and two peoples born of you shall be divided; the one shall be stronger than the other;     the elder shall serve the younger.” 24  When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb.  25  The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle, so they name...

  Ordinary Time Let me sing for my beloved     my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard     on a very fertile hill. 2 He dug it and cleared it of stones,     and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it,     and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes,     but it yielded wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem     and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. 4 What more was there to do for my vineyard,     that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes,     why did it yield wild grapes? 5 And now I will tell you     what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge,     and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall,     and it shall be trampled down. 6 I will make it a wa...

  Ordinary Time The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 10 Hear the word of the Lord, / you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, / you people of Gomorrah! 11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? / says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams / and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls / or of lambs or of goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, / who asked this from your hand? / Trample my courts no more! 13 Bringing offerings is futile; / incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation— / I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity. 14 Your new moons and your appointed festivals / my soul hates; / they have become a burden to me; / I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you stretch out your hands, / I will hide my eyes from you; even thoug...