Jeremiah 1:4-10. Every Christian is called to be part of Jesus’s ministering community.

From the propers this week, Father Harris offers a meditation on the nature of our Christian vocation - what exactly does God want us to do? The images from the Gospel of Luke seem daunting: fire, division, hypocrisy. Yet, taken as a whole, the meaning of that fire, of that division, may be surprising.

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20. The prophet Isaiah forces us with a serious question: How is your worship working out in your life?

Luke 12:13-21. Jesus’s parable of the rich fool challenges us to reflect on what life is supposed to be about.

Luke 11:1-13. When Jesus taught his disciples to pray, he didn’t tell them to pray better. Rather, he challenged them to think better of God.

Isaiah 40:1–5, Acts 13:14b–26, John 1:19–28. On St. John’s 79th birthday as a parish, Fr. Houk preaches on why it is great to be a church named after John the Baptist.

1 Kings 19:1-4, (5-7), 8-15a. The most important part of the story of Elijah at Mt. Horeb seems to be a secret.

Acts 2:1-21. On Pentecost, the apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues. But what that means is the opposite of what many think of when they think of “speaking in tongues.”

From the propers this week, Fr. Harris reflects on the way our culture prizes the grand and dramatic, while the Gospel calls us to attend to the small, the quiet, and the steady. In Acts, Saint Paul receives not a vision of angels but a dream of an ordinary man. The New Life is not lived in fireworks, but in attentiveness and imitation. Bread and wine, prayer, and fellowship are the essential dimensions of Christian life. God is not absent from the big moments, but He is most often found in the plain details of daily life.

John 13:31-35. At the last supper, Jesus gives his disciples his one commandment.