Christ Is All and in All--April 30, 2021

 

O God, your steadfast love endures forever;

do not forsake the work of your hands.

 

Women weeping for their children,

lamentations, bitter weeping,

because they are no more,

refuse to be comforted.

 

As Jesus had compassion for a widow,

have mercy on these mothers.

And forbid that we should

show less concern

 

for mothers grieving

in a foreign land, who do not

look like us, than we would show

for women living close at hand.

Christ is all and in all!

 

Lectionary Readings

Ps. 96; 148; 49; 138

Jer. 31:15-22

Col. 3:1-11

Luke 7:1-17

 

Selected Verses 

Ps. 138:8

The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me;
          your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
          Do not forsake the work of your hands.

 

Jer. 31:15

Thus says the LORD:
A voice is heard in Ramah,
          lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
          she refuses to be comforted for her children,
          because they are no more.

 

Col. 3:11

In that renewal there is no longer Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all!

 

Luke 7:12-13

As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a man who had died was being carried out.  He was his mother’s only son, and she was a widow; and with her was a large crowd from the town.  When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, “Do not weep.”