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Seventh Sunday of Easter
Seventh Sunday of Easter
June 1, 2025
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Ezekiel 36:22–28\rPsalm: Psalm 51:1–12; antiphon: v. 10\rEpistle: 1 Peter 4:7–11\rEpistle: 1 Peter 4:7–14\rGospel: John 15:26—16:4\rIntroit: Psalm 27:1, 11a, 12; antiphon: vv. 7a, 8b, 9a\rVerse: Psalm 47:8; John 14:18a, 28; 16:22b\r\rThe Spirit of Truth Bears Witness to Jesus\r \rThe Spirit of Truth bears witness to Jesus, who is the truth. But the world does not receive the truth. It loves its own and hates those who are of the truth. Just as Jesus was scorned, so is His Church. “The hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God” (John 16:2). Yet it is by Jesus’ suffering and death that we are saved. Therefore we rejoice to share in His sufferings, that we may also share in His resurrection glory (1 Pet. 4:7–14). Through the ministry of the Spirit of Truth, we are cleansed from the deceit of our idols and given a new heart and a new spirit, the heart and Spirit of Christ (Ezek. 36:22–28). He now works in us fervent, self-giving love for one another, love which covers a multitude of sins, “that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen” (1 Pet. 4:11).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Pentecost Eve
Pentecost Eve
June 7, 2025
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Joel 3:1–5\rPsalm: Psalm 85; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: Romans 8:12–17\rGospel: John 14:15–21\rIntroit: Psalm 68:32–35; antiphon: v. 19\rVerse: John 14:26; Liturgical Text\r\rThe Holy Spirit Is Poured Out\r \rJesus promises not to leave us as orphans. He sends us “another Helper . . . even the Spirit of truth” (John 14:16). The Holy Spirit helps you in your weakness and intercedes for you “with groanings too deep for words” (Rom. 8:26). He prays for you when you do not know what to pray for. This is the same Spirit whom the Lord promised long ago: “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (Joel 2:28). At Pentecost, this prophecy was fulfilled, and so it is today, as the Holy Spirit “calls, gathers, enlightens, and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth, and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith” (Small Catechism).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Pentecost Evening / Pentecost Monday
Pentecost Evening / Pentecost Monday
June 8, 2025
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 57:15–21\rPsalm: Psalm 43; antiphon: v. 3\rSecond Reading: Acts 10:34a, 42–48\rGospel: John 3:16–21\rIntroit: Psalm 81:1, 7a, 10a, 14; antiphon: v. 16\rVerse: Acts 2:4; Liturgical Text
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The Day of Pentecost
The Day of Pentecost
June 8, 2025
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Genesis 11:1–9\rPsalm: Psalm 143; antiphon: v. 11\rSecond Reading: Acts 2:1–21\rGospel: John 14:23–31\rIntroit: Psalm 68:1, 4a, c, 11a, 33b, 35a; antiphon: Liturgical Text; Psalm 68:3\rVerse: Psalm 104:30; Liturgical Text\r\rThe Holy Spirit Gives Peace\r \rFollowing the flood, Noah’s descendants failed to spread out and fill the earth as God had spoken. Rather, they exalted themselves; with “one language and the same words” (Gen. 11:1) they spoke proudly and arrogantly. The Lord humbled them by confusing “the language of all the earth,” dividing and dispersing the people (Gen. 11:9). That dispersal was reversed on Pentecost Day (the fiftieth day of Easter), when God caused the one Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be preached in a multitude of languages. “At this sound the multitude came together” (Acts 2:6), for the preaching of Christ is the primary work of the Holy Spirit, whereby He gathers people from all nations into one Church. The Holy Spirit teaches and brings to our remembrance the words of Jesus, which are the words of the Father who sent Him. These words bestow forgiveness and peace to those who keep and hold on to them in love for Jesus. “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.” (John 14:27).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Pentecost Tuesday
Pentecost Tuesday
June 10, 2025
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 32:14–20\rPsalm: Psalm 85; antiphon: v. 10\rSecond Reading: Acts 8:14–17\rGospel: John 10:1–10\rIntroit: Psalm 78:1, 70, 71b–72; antiphon: Liturgical Text\rVerse: John 14:26; Liturgical Text
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[F] St. Barnabas, Apostle
[F] St. Barnabas, Apostle
June 11, 2025
Color: Red\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 42:5–12\rPsalm: Psalm 112; antiphon: v. 1\rSecond Reading: Acts 11:19–30; 13:1–3\rGospel: Mark 6:7–13\rIntroit: Psalm 135:1–3; antiphon: v. 13\rGradual: Ephesians 4:8b, 11, 12b; 2:19a, c\rVerse: Mark 6:12\r\rSt. Barnabas, Apostle\r \rJoseph, a Levite from Cyprus, received the name Barnabas from the apostles (Acts 4:36–37). He was sent to Antioch to see “the grace of God” among the Hellenists, exhorting “them all to remain faithful to the Lord” (Acts 11:22–24). There, through His Church, the Holy Spirit “set apart … Barnabas and Saul for the work to which [He had] called them” (Acts 13:2). Just as Christ had sent out the 12 to proclaim repentance and cast out demons and heal the sick (Mark 6:7–13), so He now sent Paul and Barnabas to proclaim repentance and healing among the Gentiles. Still, this Word is not always received (Acts 13:44–52). Even within the Church, divisions threaten it. Barnabas knew this. He was at the Jerusalem council to see that the Gospel was preserved without mingling in the Law (Acts 15:2–4), and he parted ways with Paul over the usefulness of John Mark (Acts 15:36–41). Despite all these trials, St. Barnabas remained full of faith so the Gentiles could “give glory to the Lord, and declare his praise in the coastlands” (Is. 42:12). Thus, by the Lord’s calling and Spirit, Barnabas lived up to his new name: “son of encouragement” (Acts 4:36).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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The Holy Trinity
The Holy Trinity
June 15, 2025
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 6:1–7\rPsalm: Psalm 29; antiphon: v. 2\rEpistle: Romans 11:33–36\rGospel: John 3:1–17\rGospel: John 3:1–15\rIntroit: Psalm 8:1–2a, 3–5; antiphon: Liturgical Text\rGradual: Liturgical Text\rVerse: Liturgical Text\r\rThe Holy Trinity Reveals Himself to Sinners\r \rWhen Isaiah beheld the glory of the Lord, he cried out “Woe is me!” For the sinner cannot stand in the presence of a holy God and live (Is. 6:1–7). But God the Father lifted up His Son Jesus for us on the cross, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. This eternal life of Christ is given us according to the Holy Spirit’s good pleasure in Baptism. “Unless one is born [again] of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). To sinners in fear of death, the messengers of God place on our lips the living body and blood of Christ and speak His words of absolution, “Your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for” (Is. 6:7). Having received forgiveness and life from the Father through the Son by the Holy Spirit, we join with the angels in praising the blessed Trinity, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts!” (Is. 6:3). “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen” (Rom. 11:33–36).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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First Sunday after Trinity
First Sunday after Trinity
June 22, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Genesis 15:1–6\rPsalm: Psalm 33:12–22; antiphon: v. 20\rEpistle: 1 John 4:16–21\rGospel: Luke 16:19–31\rIntroit: Psalm 13:1–4; antiphon: vv. 5–6\rGradual: Psalm 41:4, 1\rVerse: Psalm 7:1\r\rFaith Trusts in Christ for Life Eternal\r \rWhen the beggar Lazarus died, he was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. For he was truly Abraham’s seed. Like Abraham, he believed in the Lord, and the Lord “counted it to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6). The name Lazarus means “God is my help.” The unnamed rich man, on the other hand, did not love and trust in God. For he evidently cared little for the beggar at his gate. And “he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen” (1 John 4:20). He who loved and trusted in possessions and prestige died and was in torments in Hades (Luke 16:19–31). Repentance and faith are worked only through Moses and the prophets—that is, the Word of God, for it points us to Christ. Only through His death and resurrection are we brought the comfort of life everlasting.\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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[F] The Nativity of St. John the Baptist
[F] The Nativity of St. John the Baptist
June 24, 2025
Color: White\r\rOld Testament: Isaiah 40:1–5\rPsalm: Psalm 85:7–13; antiphon: v. 9\rPsalm: Psalm 85; antiphon: v. 9\rSecond Reading: Acts 13:13–26\rGospel: Luke 1:57–80\rIntroit: Luke 1:68, 76–79; antiphon: Malachi 3:1\rGradual: Jeremiah 1:5, 9b\rVerse: Luke 1:17a, d\r\rThe Nativity of St. John the Baptist\r \rSt. John the Baptist is not the Christ, only His forerunner (Acts 13:25). He was called from the womb to bring Jacob back to God through his Baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins (Is. 49:5), just as Christ was the true servant of the Lord. Miraculously conceived by Zechariah the priest of barren Elizabeth, John was marked to be the greatest born of women (Matt. 11:11). The Church rejoices over the Lord’s mercy just as Elizabeth’s neighbors and relatives did at John’s birth. But when Zechariah’s tongue was loosed, John was not the subject of his song. “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people” (Luke 1:68). John is the voice “[preparing] the way of the Lord” (Is. 40:3); Jesus, the virgin-born Son of God, is that Lord. John is “the prophet of the Most High.” He is born to “give knowledge of salvation to [God’s] people in the forgiveness of their sins,” because Christ, the Dayspring, is visiting (Luke 1:76–79). Thus, what John preaches is the comfort of iniquity pardoned by Jesus, the promised Savior of Israel (Acts 13:23) and “the nations, that [His] salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (Is. 49:6).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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Second Sunday after Trinity
Second Sunday after Trinity
June 29, 2025
Color: Green\r\rOld Testament: Proverbs 9:1–10\rPsalm: Psalm 34:12–22; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: Ephesians 2:13–22\rEpistle: 1 John 3:13–18\rGospel: Luke 14:15–24\rIntroit: Psalm 18:1–2a, 27, 30a, 49; antiphon: vv. 18b–19\rGradual: Psalm 120:1–2\rVerse: Psalm 7:17\r\rThe Gospel Call Goes Out to All\r \rWisdom has issued an invitation to the divine feast: “Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight” (Prov. 9:5–6). This is the call of the Spirit of Christ to believe the Gospel and to receive His saving gifts in the Holy Supper. Many make excuses and reject this invitation, even as the Jews did in the days of Jesus, yet the Master’s house will be filled. The Gospel call therefore goes out to the lowly and despised, into the highways, even to all the Gentiles (Luke 14:15–24). For “you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13–22). In Christ, believing Jews and Gentiles are no longer strangers but fellow members of the household of God. The enmity of class and race is put to death through the cross. Having been reconciled in the one Body of Christ, we are enabled to love one another (1 John 3:13–18) as we await the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which will have no end.\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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[F] St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles
[F] St. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles
June 29, 2025
Color: Red\r\rFirst Reading: Acts 15:1–12\rFirst Reading: Acts 15:1–21\rPsalm: Psalm 46; antiphon: v. 11\rEpistle: Galatians 2:1–10\rGospel: Matthew 16:13–19\rIntroit: Psalm 89:1, 5, 15–16; antiphon: Psalm 119:46\rGradual: Romans 10:15b, 18b; Isaiah 52:7b, alt.\rVerse: Matthew 16:18b\r\rSt. Peter and St. Paul, Apostles\r \rJesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God.” So confessed St. Peter. And Christ promised to build His Church on it by the forgiveness of sins (Matt. 16:16–19). He does this so we don’t try to build the Church ourselves, on this or that person, or by any human means. “Let no one boast in men … whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas,” for “all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” (1 Cor. 3:21–23). The same Lord “who worked through Peter … worked also through” Paul and is still at work in His Gospel and Sacraments (Gal. 2:7–8). The Church of every age must be recalled to “hear the word of the gospel” — the free forgiveness of sins for Christ’s sake apart from the Law — “and believe.” The Holy Spirit makes “no distinction” among men, but cleanses “hearts by faith” alone. So “we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus” (Acts 15:7–11). Both were imprisoned (Acts 12:1–11), both wrote Scripture (2 Peter 3:15–16), both opposed the world — and sometimes each other (Gal. 2:11–16) — all so “that the truth of the gospel might be preserved” for us (Gal. 2:5).\r\rLectionary summary © 2021 The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Used by permission. http://lcms.org/worship
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