Daily Lectionary Readings for Sunday 5 November 2006

Daily Lectionary Readings for Sunday 5 November 2006

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DAILY LECTIONARY:

Morning: Psalm 103:1-22
Zephaniah 1:1-6
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13
Matthew 18:21-35
Evening: Psalm 117:1-2

THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME LECTIONARY:

Ruth 1:1-18
Psalm 146:1-10
Hebrews 9:11-14
Mark 12:28-34
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There's a lot to choose from today, but what comes up for me most in these passages is love and forgiveness.

From the morning psalm:
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children's children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.

To Paul's proclamation of a "more excellent way" than knowledge:
[8] Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. [9] For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; [10] but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end.

To Jesus' clarification to the scribe in Mark's gospel:
[28] One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?" [29] Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; [30] you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' [31] The second is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."