Pentecost Sunday readings & resources for Year A
Acts 2:1-21 or Numbers 11:24-30
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 or Acts 2:1-21
John 20:19-23 or John 7:37-39
Resources for Pentecost worship:
Click here to view Cerezo’s artwork for each Sunday of Lectionary Year A.
“There are liberation theologians … and there are ‘liberation painters’. Maximino Cerezo Barredo is one of them. His drawings have been running for the past decades in Latin American publications and passing from one person to another without copyrights or royalties, photocopying photocopies until they wear out and become almost unrecognisable … as a true “property of the Latin American People” they are. Now they entered the time of digitization” — quoted from the website
Ordinary Time — Season after Pentecost: readings and worship resources…
Genesis 1:1-2:4a
Psalm 8
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
Matthew 28:16-20
Resources for worship:
Not observed this year.
Isaiah 49:8-16a
Psalm 131
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
Matthew 6:24-34
Resources for worship:
Not observed this year.
Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19
Psalm 46 Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28
Psalm 31:1-5, 19-24 Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28, (29-31)
Matthew 7:21-29
Resources for worship:
Genesis 12:1-9
Psalm 33:1-12
Hosea 5:15-6:6
Psalm 50:7-15
Romans 4:13-25
Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
Worship resources:
Genesis 18:1-15, (21:1-7)
Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19
Exodus 19:2-8a
Psalm 100
Romans 5:1-8
Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23)
Resources for worship:
Worship resources for Father’s Day:
Genesis 21:8-21
Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17
Jeremiah 20:7-13
Psalm 69:7-10, (11-15), 16-18
Romans 6:1b-11
Matthew 10:24-39
Resources for worship:
Genesis 22:1-14
Psalm 13
Jeremiah 28:5-9
Psalm 89:1-4, 15-18
Romans 6:12-23
Matthew 10:40-42
Worship Words resources:
Independence Day USA worship resources
Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67
Psalm 45:10-17
or
Song of Solomon 2:8-13
Zechariah 9:9-12
Psalm 145:8-14 Romans 7:15-25a
Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 25:19-34
Psalm 119:105-112
Isaiah 55:10-13
Psalm 65:(1-8), 9-13
Romans 8:1-11
Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 28:10-19a
Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24
Wisdom of Solomon 12:13, 16-19
or
Isaiah 44:6-8
Psalm 86:11-17
Romans 8:12-25
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 29:15-28
Psalm 105:1-11, 45b
or
Psalm 128
1 Kings 3:5-12
Psalm 119:129-136
Romans 8:26-39
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 32:22-31
Psalm 17:1-7, 15
Isaiah 55:1-5
Psalm 145:8-9, 14-21
Romans 9:1-5
Matthew 14:13-21
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28
Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b
1 Kings 19:9-18
Psalm 85:8-13
Romans 10:5-15
Matthew 14:22-33
Worship Words resources:
Genesis 45:1-15
Psalm 133
Isaiah 56:1, 6-8
Psalm 67
Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32
Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28
Worship Words resources:
Exodus 1:8-2:10
Psalm 124
Isaiah 51:1-6
Psalm 138
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 16:13-20
Worship Words resources:
Ready-to-Act: a story from Exodus 1:8-2:10 — Ana Gobledale, UK
Characters: 1) Narrator, 2) Pharoah, 3) Pharoah’s Daughter, 4) Miriam, 5) Midwife Shiphrah, 6) Midwife Puah
Provide large-font copies for all actor/readers; no memorization required. Print landscape with two columns to avoid hiding mouths behind sheets.
Script
Narrator: Now a new king arose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
He said to his people,
Pharaoh: Look, the Israelite people are more numerous and more powerful than we.
Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase and, in the event of war, join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.
Narrator: Therefore the Egyptians set taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them
with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites. The Egyptians became ruthless in imposing tasks on the Israelites, and made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and brick and in every kind of field labor. They were ruthless in all the tasks that they imposed on them. The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
Pharaoh: When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthstool, if it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live.
Narrator: But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live. So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and said to them,
Pharaoh: Why have you done this, and allowed the boys to live?”
Narrator: The midwives said to Pharaoh,
Shiphrah and Puah (midwives): Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.”
Narrator: So God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, God gave them families. Then Pharaoh commanded all his people,
Pharaoh: Every boy that is born to the Hebrews you shall throw into the Nile, but you shall let every girl live.
Narrator: Now a man from the house of Levi went and married a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son; and when she saw that he was a fine baby, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him, and plastered it with tar. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the bank of the river. The child’s sister stood at a distance, to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it. When she opened it, she saw the child. He was crying, and she took pity on him, and said,
Pharaoh’s Daughter: This must be one of the Hebrews’ children.
Narrator: Then the baby’s sister, Miriam, said to Pharaoh’s daughter,
Miriam: Shall I go and get you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?
Pharaoh’s Daughter: Yes.
Narrator: So the girl went and called the child’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her,
Pharaoh’s Daughter: Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages.
Narrator: So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses because,
Pharaoh’s Daughter: I drew him out of the water.
Exodus 3:1-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45b
Jeremiah 15:15-21
Psalm 26:1-8
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 16:21-28
Worship Words resources:
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Season of Creation Resources
Exodus 12:1-14
Psalm 149
Ezekiel 33:7-11
Psalm 119:33-40
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20
Resources for worship:
Exodus 14:19-31
Psalm 114
or
Exodus 15:1b-11, 20-21
Genesis 50:15-21
Psalm 103:(1-7), 8-13
Romans 14:1-12
Matthew 18:21-35
Resources for worship:
Click here for Season of Creation resources.
Exodus 16:2-15
Psalm 105:1-6, 37-45
Jonah 3:10-4:11
Psalm 145:1-8
Philippians 1:21-30
Matthew 20:1-16
Worship Words resources:
Exodus 17:1-7
Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16
Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32
Psalm 25:1-9
Philippians 2:1-13
Matthew 21:23-32
Worship resources:
Click here for Season of Creation resources, ending 4 October, St Francis Day.
World Communion Sunday (link to worship resources) — Celebrated in many countries on the first Sunday of October, World Communion Sunday offers a congregation an opportunity to hear global voices and sing international hymns. Several helpful resources, including a complete communion service and message, are available on the website of Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ USA.
Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20
Psalm 19
Isaiah 5:1-7
Psalm 80:7-15
Philippians 3:4b-14
Matthew 21:33-46
Resources for worship:
Exodus 32:1-14
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23
Isaiah 25:1-9
Psalm 23
Philippians 4:1-9
Matthew 22:1-14
Worship resources:
Exodus 33:12-23
Psalm 99
Isaiah 45:1-7
Psalm 96:1-9, (10-13)
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Matthew 22:15-22
Resources for worship:
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17
Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18
Psalm 1
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Matthew 22:34-46
Worship Words resources:
Reformation Sunday – worship resources:
Joshua 3:7-17
Psalm 107:1-7, 33-37
Micah 3:5-12
Psalm 43
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
Matthew 23:1-12
Worship Words resources:
Click here for Remembrance Day (11/11) resources.
Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
Psalm 78:1-7
Wisdom of Solomon 6:12-16
or
Amos 5:18-24
Wisdom of Solomon 6:17-20
or
Psalm 70
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Matthew 25:1-13
Worship resources:
Click here for Remembrance Day resources.
Judges 4:1-7
Psalm 123
Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18
Psalm 90:1-8, (9-11), 12
1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
Matthew 25:14-30
Worship resources:
Reign of Christ Sunday
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 100
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24
Psalm 95:1-7a
Ephesians 1:15-23
Matthew 25:31-46
Worship Words resources:
Reign of Christ Sunday resources:
Click here to view Cerezo’s artwork for each Sunday of Lectionary Year A.
“There are liberation theologians … and there are ‘liberation painters’. Maximino Cerezo Barredo is one of them. His drawings have been running for the past decades in Latin American publications and passing from one person to another without copyrights or royalties, photocopying photocopies until they wear out and become almost unrecognisable … as a true “property of the Latin American People” they are. Now they entered the time of digitization” — quoted from the website
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- Manyano, Mfanefile, South Africa
