Great and Awesome: Fifth Sunday of Easter
Happy Resurrection Day, friends! Easter Sunday kicks off a seven-week festival in the liturgical calendar known as Eastertide or The Great Fifty Days. I'll be posting daily each day of the Easter Octave and each Sunday following that. May you know new life, peace, and hope today, tomorrow, and forever.
Read all the way to the end of the post for a way you can help us practice resurrection!
LOOK: And the Mountains Rose (Psalm 104:5-8), Barbara Wolff - Source | HT
LISTEN: Declaring Glory (The Earth Sings Its Refrain), The Porter’s Gate - Lyrics | Spotify | YouTube
READ: Deuteronomy 6:20-25; Psalm 66:1-11v; 1 Peter 2:1-12; John 14:1-14
Daily readings for the fifth week of Eastertide
Monday (5/8) Psalm 56-57; Psalm 64-65; Wisdom 9:1, 7-18; Colossians 4:2-18; Luke 7:36-50
Tuesday (5/9) Psalm 61, 62; Psalm 68; Wisdom 10; Romans 12:1-21; Luke 8:1-15
Wednesday (5/10) Psalm 72; Psalm 119:73-96; Wisdom 13:1-9; Romans 13:1-14; Luke 8:16-25
Thursday (5/11) Psalm 71; Psalm 74; Wisdom 14:27-15:3; Romans 14:1-12; Luke 8:26-39
Friday (5/12) Psalm 106; Wisdom 16:15-17:1; Romans 14:13-23; Luke 8:40-56
Saturday (5/13) Psalm 75-76; Psalm 23, 27; Wisdom 19:1-8,18-22; Romans 15:1-13; Luke 9:1-17
PRAY: Collect for Fifth Sunday After Easter, the Book of Common Prayer
Almighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your Son Jesus Christ to be the way, the truth, and the life, that we may steadfastly follow his steps in the way that leads to eternal glory; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
DO: I am delighted to invite you to join the launch team for my first book! I can’t think of a better way to practice resurrection than to learn how to arrange our everyday lives around the restful way of Jesus, which is the theme of my book The Spacious Path. I am especially looking for a group of 15 people to participate in a First Readers Discussion Group Wednesday nights in May and June. Daybook Meditations members make the perfect “first readers” so I hope to hear from lots of you.
You can email me right here to let me know you’d like to join the First Readers Discussion Group. I’ll pick 15 members from the emails I receive and will largely base the selection on your availability to both read and meet for the virtual book discussions. I will take submissions through Wednesday, May 10.
If you are selected for the First Readers Discussion Group, you’ll receive an email by May 13th. (Save Wednesday evenings in May and June—but don’t sweat it if you have one or two conflicts.) I hope you’re one of the 15! I can’t wait to do this together.
Sunday Scripture readings are taken from Year C of the Book of Common Prayer 2019 (Anglican Church of North America). Daily Scripture readings are taken from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and include both Morning and Evening Psalms (Year 2)