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Rev Peter W Nimmo<p><strong>Opening Prayers for the Sixth Sunday of Easter Year C (May 25 2025)</strong></p><p><em>These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome. The following prayers are for based on the readings for the <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?z=s&amp;d=48&amp;y=384" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C</a>. The Gospel use reading is John 14.23-29.</em></p><p><strong>Call to Worship</strong></p><p>Optional: the congregation may say together the words in <em><strong>bold</strong></em>.</p><p>Let the peoples praise you, O God;<br><em><strong>let all the peoples praise you.</strong></em></p><p>Let us worship God.</p><p><strong>Prayer of Approach and Confession</strong></p><p>Let us pray.</p><p>Almighty God,<br>you deserve the praise of all people and all nations.<br>For you created the earth and all its people<br>and work inscrutably in the history of all nations.</p><p></p><p>Above all, you have sent your Son, Jesus Christ<br>your Word made flesh<br>for us to learn of your love.<br>He calls those who love him<br>to keep his commands<br>for what he taught has come from you.<br>And he promises us the help of the Spirit<br>sent by you to teach us the fullness of faith<br>and to remind us of Christ’s love.</p><p>And so we praise you today,<br>and sing for joy<br>for all your blessings to us!</p><p>We confess that we need reminding of your love<br>for we find it easy to forget Christ<br>and to follow our own path<br>instead of the ways Jesus calls us.<br>Forgive us our forgetfulness and our lack of faith<br>for the sake of Christ, our saviour.</p><p><em>silence</em></p><p>May God be gracious to us and bless us<br>and make his face to shine upon us.<br>The peace of God be with us all.</p><p><strong>Supplication</strong></p><p><em><strong>God of grace,</strong></em><br><em><strong>your Spirit call us ever onward on our journeys of faith.</strong></em><br><em><strong>Open our hearts to hear your Word</strong></em><br><em><strong>and give us courage to go where Christ calls us.</strong></em><br><em><strong>We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.</strong></em></p><p><em>Featured image: Trey Everett, Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled (2018). Trey Everett is a graphic artist who has created images for some of the Lectionary readings. His work is available at <a href="http://www.treyeverettcreates.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.treyeverettcreates.com</a>. From Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. <a href="https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57820" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57820</a> [retrieved May 16, 2025].</em></p><p><a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bmc-full-logo.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p><p>Liked this? <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/peterwnimmo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Buy me a coffee!</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionary/" target="_blank">#Lectionary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionaryprayers/" target="_blank">#LectionaryPrayers</a></p>
Rev Peter W Nimmo<p><strong>Opening Prayers for the Fourth Sunday of Easter Year C (May 11&nbsp;2025)</strong></p><p class=""><em>These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome. The following prayers are for based on the readings for the <a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2025/05/01/opening-prayers-for-the-third-sunday-of-easter-year-c-may-04-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Fourth Sunday of Easter</a>.</em></p><p><strong>Call to Worship</strong></p><p>“Salvation belongs to our God who is seated on the throne</p><p>and to the Lamb!”</p><p class=""><em>Revelation 7.9</em></p><p>Let us worship God.</p><p><strong>Prayer of Approach and Confession</strong></p><p>Let us pray.</p><p>God our good shepherd,</p><p>as we come to worship you</p><p>we acknowledge your presence with us.</p><p></p><p>Yet you, creator God,</p><p>have been with us all the days of our lives.</p><p>You are the source of all our blessings.</p><p>You give us all that we need</p><p>for your power, and love, and care</p><p>always surround us.</p><p>Even if we have walked</p><p>through death’s dark vale,</p><p>you have been with us,</p><p>your rod and staff</p><p>have guided and comforted us.</p><p>And now we to come to your house;</p><p>you welcome and bless us</p><p>and your love for us overflows</p><p>and you invite us to dwell with you forever.</p><p>God our good shepherd,</p><p>you alone are worthy of our praise and worship.</p><p class=""><em>21 April 2013 alt</em></p><p>Restore our souls</p><p>God of grace;</p><p>for we have failed too often</p><p>to be true disciples of Jesus.</p><p>We have followed the voice of others</p><p>in our journey through life</p><p>and failed to find the green pastures you promise your people.</p><p>Forgive us our sins</p><p>and for the sake of Christ,</p><p>the Lamb who died for our sins.</p><p><em>silence</em></p><p>Christ the Good Shepherd</p><p>will lead us to the springs of the water of life</p><p>where God will wipe the tears from our eyes.</p><p>Know that in Christ you are forgiven.</p><p><strong>Collect</strong></p><p>Lord Jesus Christ</p><p>like a caring shepherd you call us</p><p>to follow your voice.</p><p>Grant that we would truly know you and follow you</p><p>by obeying your command of love in all things.</p><p>And so may we be counted among your people</p><p>so that we may know eternal life in you.</p><p><strong>Doxology</strong></p><p>Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving</p><p>and honour and power and might</p><p>be to our God forever and ever! Amen.</p><p class=""><em>Revelation 7.12</em></p><p class=""><em>Featured image: Shepherd in Făgăraș Mountains, Romania. Wikipedia commons</em></p><a href="https://peterwnimmo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bmc-full-logo.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Liked this? <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/peterwnimmo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Buy me a coffee!</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/good-shepherd/" target="_blank">#GoodShepherd</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionary/" target="_blank">#Lectionary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionaryprayers/" target="_blank">#LectionaryPrayers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/psalm-23/" target="_blank">#Psalm23</a></p>
royal<p>For St. Thomas Sunday.<br><a href="https://mattroyal.micro.blog/2025/04/23/peace-in-the-presence-of.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mattroyal.micro.blog/2025/04/2</span><span class="invisible">3/peace-in-the-presence-of.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://theres.life/tags/Bible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bible</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/goodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>goodNews</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lectionary</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/rcl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rcl</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/Easter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Easter</span></a></p>
Rev Peter W Nimmo<p><strong>Opening Prayers for the Fifth Sunday in Lent Year C (April 6&nbsp;2025)</strong></p><p class=""><em>These opening prayers for Sunday worship take their inspiration from the Scripture readings of the Revised Common Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome</em>. <em>The following prayers are for based on the readings for <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384&amp;z=l&amp;d=29" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Fifth Sunday in Lent</a> April 6, 2025.</em></p><p><strong><strong>Prayer of Approach and Confession</strong></strong></p><p>Let us pray.</p><p>Generous God<br>you are the one who has created all things<br>that we need to live and to thrive.</p><p>The wonders of your creation<br>leave us in awe.<br>Your works of salvation<br>leaves us speechless.<br>The new things that you promise to do<br>make us tingle with anticipation.</p><p></p><p>You have created us for your praise:<br>accept our worship today!</p><p>In gratitude, eternal God<br>we recall what you have done for us:<br>in the stories of your people, Israel-<br>chosen to bring the knowledge of God to the world;<br>in the stories of Jesus<br>which teach of your love and forgiveness;<br>in the work of your Holy Spirit<br>in the lives of our mothers and fathers in the faith<br>who handed the Gospel down to us.</p><p>You call us to be your people,<br>created to declare your praise<br>and to serve those in poverty and need<br>in the name of Christ.</p><p>Yet we take our heritage of faith lightly.<br>We turn away from the suffering of our neighbours<br>although in baptism<br>we were called to share in the suffering of Christ.</p><p>We are proud of our own status and achievements<br>yet we fail to see them in the perspective<br>of what Christ has achieved for us.</p><p>Too often,<br>we offer our love and our service<br>in carefully calculated small doses<br>instead of responding generously and spontaneously<br>with the fragrance of your love.<br>We are unwilling to bear<br>the cost of discipleship<br>because we underestimate the value<br>of who Jesus is for us.</p><p>We find ourselves clinging to past glories<br>instead of straining forward<br>to the future you are bringing us.</p><p>Forgive us for these and all our failings<br>and grant us forgiveness of sins.</p><p><em>silence</em></p><p>If we sow in tears, may we reap with joy,<br>for the Lord has done great things for us!</p><p><strong>Supplication</strong></p><p>Eternal God,<br>whose Son Jesus Christ came among us<br>to bring joy where there is mourning,<br>life in the face of death,<br>and hope when we are discouraged<br>help us to know anew<br>the power of Christ’s resurrection<br>in our life together<br>and to strive for the goal<br>of knowing you ever more fully<br>in Jesus Christ. Amen.</p><p><strong><strong>Sending and Benediction</strong></strong></p><p>Rejoice!<br>Go in joy and laughter<br>for God has done great things for us<br>and listen for the heavenly call of Christ<br>in the week ahead.</p><p>The blessing of God<br>Father, Son and Holy Spirit<br>be with you all. Amen.</p><a href="https://peterwnimmo.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bmc-full-logo.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Like this? <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/peterwnimmo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Buy me a coffee</a>!</p><p class=""><em>Featured Image: Anonymous. Mary Anoints Jesus’ Feet: Germany, 16th Century – detail, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. <a href="https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56139" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56139</a> [retrieved March 31, 2025]. Original source: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_School,16th_Century-_Mary_Magdalene_anointing_the_feet_of_Christ.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:German_School,16th_Century-_Mary_Magdalene_anointing_the_feet_of_Christ.jpg</a>.</em></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionary/" target="_blank">#Lectionary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lent/" target="_blank">#Lent</a></p>
Rev Peter W Nimmo<p><strong>Opening Prayers for the Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (February 9&nbsp;2025)</strong></p><p class=""><em>Part of a series of opening prayers for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary. They take their inspiration from the Scripture readings in the Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome</em>.</p><p class=""><em>The following prayers are for based on the readings for the <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?z=e&amp;d=18&amp;y=384" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany</a>, February 9, 2025</em>.</p><p><strong><strong>Call to Prayer</strong></strong></p><p>The Psalmist says:</p><p>On the day I called, you answered me;</p><p>you increased my strength of soul.</p><p class=""><em>Psalm 138.3</em></p><p>Let us pray.</p><p><strong><strong>Prayer of Approach and Confession</strong></strong></p><p>Holy, holy, holy,</p><p>Lord God of hosts-</p><p>you are the only holy God.</p><p></p><p>Source of life,</p><p>ground of our being,</p><p>creator of all:</p><p>you alone are worthy of our worship</p><p>in this holy place on this Sabbath day</p><p>and in loving service to our neighbours</p><p>wherever we are, every day of the week.</p><p>Above all lesser gods</p><p>we sing your praise</p><p>exalt your name</p><p>and give thanks</p><p>for your steadfast love and faithfulness.</p> <p>We acknowledge that,</p><p>in the face of your holiness and power</p><p>we feel lost and unclean,</p><p>sinful people who feel unfit to be your people.</p><p>For we are too often blind and deaf to your call.</p> <p>In silence, we remember our failings.</p><p><em>silence</em></p> <p>Hear the message which has been proclaimed to us:</p><p>by the grace of God,</p><p>we are what we are-</p><p>people set free by God from sin</p><p>for the sake of Christ</p><p>who died, was buried, and raised to life for us.</p><p>Thanks be to God!</p> <p>Holy God, by your Spirit</p><p>your grace is within us.</p><p>You will not forsake the work of your hands:</p><p>for you promise to preserve and deliver us.</p><p>You have brought us through</p><p>the waters of baptism</p><p>to land us safe with Christ</p><p>and now you call us to proclaim his love.</p><p>Help us to fish for men and women</p><p>who will join us in his boat.</p><p>Enable us to fulfil your purpose for us</p><p>and deliver us from your troubles.</p> <p>We pray in Jesus’ name.</p><p>Amen.</p><a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/bmc-logo.png" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a><p>Liked this? <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/peterwnimmo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Buy me a coffee</a>!</p><p class=""><em>Featured image: Albrecht Bouts, Miraculous Draught of Fish, 16th Century. Museum Leuven, Belgium. from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library</em></p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/epiphany5/" target="_blank">#Epiphany5</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionary/" target="_blank">#Lectionary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionaryprayers/" target="_blank">#LectionaryPrayers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/prayer/" target="_blank">#Prayer</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/prayers/" target="_blank">#Prayers</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/worship/" target="_blank">#worship</a></p>
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A Guy Named Brian (he/him)<p>Everliving God, who strengthened your apostle Thomas with firm and certain faith in your Son's resurrection: Grant us so perfectly and without doubt to believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and our God, that our faith may never be found wanting in your sight; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SaintThomasDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaintThomasDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apostle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apostle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Faith</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Doubt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuestionsCanBeGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuestionsCanBeGood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Episcopal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Episcopal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FeastDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FeastDay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MajorFeast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MajorFeast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Advent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Advent</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/Thomas.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">satucket.com/lectionary/Thomas</span><span class="invisible">.htm</span></a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>Happy New Year to my fellow lectionary nerds! Happy Year C! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lectionary</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Advent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Advent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/calendar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>calendar</span></a></p>
Rev Peter W Nimmo<p><strong>Opening Prayers for Epiphany of the Lord, Years A, B and&nbsp;C</strong></p><p class=""><em>Part of a series of opening prayers for Sundays in the Revised Common Lectionary. They take their inspiration from the Scripture readings in the Lectionary. Worship leaders are welcome to use them for worship, but if you print or display any part of them, please credit the author. Comments welcome</em>.</p><p class=""><em>The following prayers are for based on the readings for the <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts/?y=384&amp;z=e&amp;d=12" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Epiphany of the Lord</a>, where the Gospel is the story of the Wise Men meeting Herod, and worshipping the baby in Bethlehem, and returning by another road. Where this is not a Sunday you may wish to transfer it to the previous Sunday or the next Sunday. Alterniatively, you might wish to preach on the passage during the Christmas season.</em></p><p class=""><em>The prayers are based on Isaiah 60:1-6, Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14, Ephesians 3:1-12 and Matthew 2:1-12. The readings are the same for all three years.</em></p><p><strong><strong>Call to worship</strong></strong></p><p>Lift up your eyes, and look around!</p><p>God’s people are gathering.</p><p class=""><em>cf Psalm 60.4</em></p><p>So let us worship God.</p><p><strong><strong>Prayer of Approach</strong></strong></p><p>Lord of light,</p><p>we praise you,</p><p>for you are the one who casts away the darkness</p><p>which covers our lives, and our world.</p><p></p><p>Yours is the light which illuminates that which is good</p><p>in all the nations of the world.</p><p>In this time of worship</p><p>we lift our eyes to your light.</p><p>We rejoice in your glory</p><p>and in the mystery of the salvation of the world</p><p>you have brought through Jesus Christ.</p> <p>As the Wise Men came seeking the Christ Child</p><p>kindle within us a desire to seek him anew</p><p>and to make new discoveries</p><p>of his truth and his glory.</p><p>May the Star of Bethlehem</p><p>lead us to worship the Light of the World.</p><p><strong><strong>Confession</strong></strong></p><p>God of infinite grace,</p><p>in the gift you gave us at Bethlehem</p><p>you offer us the boundless riches of Christ.</p><p>Yet we are slow to offer all that we have.</p><p>The Wise Men left home to seek the truth;</p><p>but we are too often content to stay where we are comfortable.</p><p>King Herod claimed he wanted to worship the child;</p><p>and too often, we are taken in by plausible lies.</p> <p>We ask for your forgiveness</p><p>for all the ways we fall short</p><p>in generosity,</p><p>in courage,</p><p>and in failing to seek and to heed your truth.</p><p>Give us time to amend our lives</p><p>and may your Spirit to enable us</p><p>to live more fully</p><p>in the light of your Word made flesh.</p><p><em>silence</em></p><p><strong><strong>Supplication</strong></strong></p><p>What shall we give you, O Lord</p><p>for all that you have given us in Jesus Christ?</p><p>The wealth of all nations would not be sufficient!</p><p>In the bleak midwinter,</p><p>the Wise Men brought their gold, frankincense, and myrrh.</p><p>So what may we bring you, poor as we are?</p><p>What else, but a heart to follow Jesus!</p> <p>So grant us boldness and confidence</p><p>in our faith in the promises of Jesus.</p><p>Give us the courage to take another road</p><p>if that is where you are leading us on our journey of life.</p><p>And may we thrill and rejoice</p><p>as your light dawns on us anew every day.</p><p>We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ,</p><p>the Light of the World. Amen.</p><p><em>Featured image: </em></p><p class=""><em>Featured image: Adoration of the Magi (1619). Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640).<br>Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique. from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. <a href="https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56315" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56315</a> [retrieved December 13, 2022]. 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Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> post: Positions</p><p>The sons of Zebedee are trying to ensure themselves special places in the Kingdom. They seem to envision some kind of banquet or court with Jesus in the most prominent position and others with honored or powerful positions arrayed around him according to the rules of precedence. They want to lock down the two most important positions for themselves. We've heard for several weeks in a row now.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/10/19/positions/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/10/19/positions/</span></a></p>
Rev Peter W Nimmo<p>Back in May <a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2024/04/21/i-am-having-to-leave-full-time-ministry-due-to-long-covid/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I left full-time parish ministry</a> due to my continuing ill-health. My continued battle with Long Covid has also meant that there have been few posts on this site recently</p><p>At the moment I am preparing to move out of the manse and into a new home. Once the move is over, I hope to be able to start thinking again about blogging here more often. In particular, I know that many people appreciated my <a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/category/lectionary-prayers/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Lectionary Prayers,</a> and I eventually hope to start posting these again sometime soon.</p><p>I thank all of you follow me here for your patience.</p><p>Peter </p><p><a href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2024/10/14/a-personal-update/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/2024/10/14/a-personal-update/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/lectionary/" target="_blank">#Lectionary</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://peterwnimmo.co.uk/tag/prayer/" target="_blank">#Prayer</a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> Post: Disaster</p><p>Jesus is talking about welcoming children again you'd think we'd have that covered, but apparently the disciples still haven't figured it out. Anyway, I don't really want to write about that again so instead let's talk about Job. This is a kind of disturbing little story. To settle a private bet, God allows great misfortune to come to one of his loyal followers.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/disaster/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/10/06/disaster/</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> post: Millstone</p><p>The piece in this week's passage about the millstone and chopping off of hands is often snipped out of its context and used as a general response to sin. It becomes a kind of purity talking point that says if you sin or allow others to sin then you should be punished. However, I think this week's Gospel text really wants to be read together with last week's so let's just remind ourselves of the situation here.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/09/28/millstone/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/09/28/millstone/</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> Post: Messiah</p><p>Peter declares that Jesus is the Messiah and Jesus begins to teach his disciples something of what he's about. The way this passage is structured it feels like that's in response to Peter's declaration as a correction or an expansion on that idea. Jesus doesn't confirm or deny Peter's declaration. He just starts in on this lesson. The word "Messiah" comes with baggage.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/09/14/messiah/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/09/14/messiah/</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> post: Outsider</p><p>The general agreement is that the Gospel of Mark was written for a gentile audience far from Galilee or Jerusalem. So why all the insults in this week's encounter with this women seeking wholeness for her daughter? Jesus is in the road, visiting Tyre. He's apparently trying to go incognito for a quiet escape from all the crowds that have featured in the previous couple of chapters.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/outsider/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/09/06/outsider/</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> post:Defile</p><p>We're finished with John's long conversation about bread and we're back in Mark but we're still talking about eating so let's see if there are any interesting connections here. Before I jump in playing with this text, here's Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg putting this conversation, or one very much like it recorded in Matthew, into the context of debates between different schools of Rabbinic Judaism.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/08/31/defile-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/08/31/defile-3/</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p>I'm planning out my next set of lectionary inspired paintings. This seems to be a set of 6 small living things. So far I have:<br>Psalm 19:10 - honey, honeybee.<br>Psalm 1:3 - leaf, sapling<br>Psalm 124:7 - bird<br>Psalm 22:6 - worm.</p><p>Two are missing:<br>Psalm 125 (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20125&amp;version=NIV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biblegateway.com/passage/?sear</span><span class="invisible">ch=Psalm%20125&amp;version=NIV</span></a> )<br>Psalm 26 (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2026&amp;version=NIV" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">biblegateway.com/passage/?sear</span><span class="invisible">ch=Psalm%2026&amp;version=NIV</span></a> )</p><p>Do you have any ideas for small living things associated with mountains/unshakableness? Or with prairies/level ground?</p><p>Or another idea?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WaterColor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterColor</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/brainstorming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brainstorming</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lectionary</span></a></p>
Rivikah<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Lectionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lectionary</span></a> post: After</p><p>The Gospel of John was written afterwards. After the life of Jesus. After the destruction of the Temple. After Christians and Jews became distinct religions. After the writing of Mark, Matthew, Luke, Acts, all of Paul's letters, and most of the other Epistles. After decades of development in Christian doctrine and practice. As a result, it's sometimes more a theological document than a narrative one.</p><p><a href="https://lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.com/2024/08/16/after/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lectionaryoutloud.wordpress.co</span><span class="invisible">m/2024/08/16/after/</span></a></p>