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Job 3:1-26
Psalm 137:1-6

It's funny (but not ha-ha funny) that these readings come up just when I'm struggling the most.

I've always gravitated to passages like these, but today they hit extra hard.

People don't like to hear this but lamentation is a holy act.

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August 22, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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Loyola High School of Los Angeles President, Jamal Adams, roots us with life-giving words in this #StubbornHope #Lenten reflection for the Feb 19 #lectionaryreadings.
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February 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 31 May 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Trinity Sunday
Isaiah 40.12-17,27-31; Psalm 8; 2 Corinthians 13.11-13; Matthew 28.16-20 HERE are three (of course) questions for this Trinity Sunday Gospel. First, which mountain? Is Jesus directing his disciples to return to the mount of transfiguration, where ...
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May 27, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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Cally Hammond on the lectionary readings for 21 June 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: 3rd Sunday after Trinity
Jeremiah 20.7-13; Psalm 69.8-11[12-17]18-20*; Romans 6.1b-11; Matthew 10.24-39 WHO is Jesus referring to as “them” in Matthew 10.26? This reference looks like a way of making an impersonal observation in modern English. In other words, “They will ...
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June 15, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for this Sunday 📖

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St Bartholomew the Apostle
Isaiah 43.8-13; Psalm 145.1-7; Acts 5.12-16; Luke 22.24-30
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August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 7 June 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: First Sunday after Trinity
Hosea 5.15 – 6.6; Psalm 50.7-15; Romans 4.13-end; Matthew 9.9-13, 18-26 HERE is a command from Jesus which I have never actively tried to fulfil: “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the right...
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June 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Goodness and mercy surely shall 
   all my days follow me:
And in the Lord's house I shall dwell 
   so long as days shall be.

~ Psalm 23, Bay Psalm Book (1640)

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March 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Cally Hammond on the lectionary readings for 2 August 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: 9th Sunday after Trinity
Proper 13: Isaiah 55.1-5; Psalm 145.8-9, 15-22; Romans 9.1-5; Matthew 14.13-21 JESUS did many miracles during his ministry. The first Christians preserved accounts of them for future generations, for us. They are various, and directed at different...
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July 27, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 19 April 📖

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3rd Sunday of Easter
Acts 2.14a,36-41; Psalm 116.1-3,10-17; 1 Peter 1.17-23; Luke 24.13-35 THE most important theological question that Christians can ask about their faith is: “Is it true?” The most important historical question that Christians can ask about their fa...
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April 13, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 3 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Good Friday
Isaiah 52.13-53.12; Psalm 22; Hebrews [10.16-25 or] 4.14-16; 5.7-9; John 18.1-19.42 THE Passion is action-packed. People move from scene to scene: garden, prison, palace, hillside. There is violence and cruelty: scourging, mockery, shame. Tense se...
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March 30, 2026 at 10:58 AM
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Cally Hammond on the lectionary readings for 26 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: 4th Sunday of Easter
Acts 2.42-47; 23; 1 Peter 2.19-25; John 10.1-10 OF ALL the words that Christians use without reflecting about their significance, “Amen” is surely the most important and one of the most familiar. It is a word that Jesus himself uses repeatedly and...
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April 20, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 5 July 📖

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5th Sunday after Trinity
Proper 9: Zechariah 9.9-12; Psalm 145.8-15; Romans 7.15-25a; Matthew 11.16-19,25-30 THE meaning of Matthew 11.16-19, according to one commentary, has been “contested for centuries”. To understand it, we must take account of what precedes it: Jesus...
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June 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 5 April 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: Easter Day
Acts 10.34-43 or Jeremiah 31.1-6; Psalm 118.1-2,14-24; Colossians 3.1-4 or Acts 10.34-43; John 20.1-18 or Matthew 28.1-10 IN MATTHEW’s resurrection Gospel, Mary Magdalene and another Mary go to the tomb. This is a variation on John’s version, with...
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March 31, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 7 June 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: First Sunday after Trinity
Hosea 5.15 – 6.6; Psalm 50.7-15; Romans 4.13-end; Matthew 9.9-13, 18-26 HERE is a command from Jesus which I have never actively tried to fulfil: “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the right...
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June 1, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Cally Hammond reflects on the lectionary readings for 3 May 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: 5th Sunday of Easter
Acts 7.55-60; Psalm 31.1-5,15-16; 1 Peter 2.2-10; John 14.1-14 SOME words of wisdom from the NHS: “Separation anxiety is common in young children, but it’s a normal part of children’s development and they usually grow out of it.” It can be “a sign...
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April 29, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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Cally Hammond on the lectionary readings for 17 May 📖

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Sunday’s Readings: 7th Sunday of Easter Sunday after Ascension Day
Acts 1.6-14; Psalm 68.1-10,32-35*; 1 Peter 4.12-14; 5.6-11; John 17.1-11 “I AM no longer in the world, but they are in the world.” With these words, Jesus anticipates a future event. Before he has been arrested or crucified, he speaks as if his re...
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May 11, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Tech table lectionary ramblings…

Jesus’ warnings against cultural approval (‘Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you…’) expose the church’s temptation to align with worldly power rather than embody God’s kingdom.

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February 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM