[This is the first time in at least 17 years
that this particular grouping of readings
has appeared in the lectionary.]
We have no secrets from you, Lord Jesus.
Even if we flee to the wilderness to hide,
we live in the light of your countenance.
Make a place for us where we are;
nourish us with your love and light,
that our deeds may be done in you.
Lectionary Readings
Ps. 90; 149; 80; 72
Gen. 3:8-15
Rev. 12:1-10
John 3:16-21
Selected Verses
Ps. 90:8
You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
Gen. 3:10
[The man] said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”
Rev. 12:6
…and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, so that there she can be nourished for one thousand two hundred sixty days.
John 3:21
“…But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.” [Jesus, to Nicodemus]
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