Scripture Reading for the
Common Calendar Year
(beginning January 1st)

May 11

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The Lectionary According to the Common Calendar

Psalm 114

1 When Israel went out of Egypt,
the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language,
2 Judah was His sanctuary,
and Israel His dominion.
3 The sea saw it, and fled;
Jordan was driven back.
4 The mountains skipped like rams,
and the little hills like lambs.

5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest?
Thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
6 Ye mountains, that ye skipped like rams,
and ye little hills, like lambs?

7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the LORD,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8 who turned the rock into a standing water,
the flint into a fountain of waters.

Mark 8:1-9 

1 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples unto Him and said unto them, 

2 "I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. 3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way; for divers of them came from afar." 

4 And His disciples answered Him, "From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?" 5 And He asked them, 

"How many loaves have ye?"

 And they said, "Seven." 6 And He commanded the people to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke, and gave to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the people. 7 And they had a few small fishes, and He blessed them and commanded to set them also before them. 8 So they ate and were filled; and they took up of the broken meat that was left, seven baskets. 9 And those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away.

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech -- 13 and not as Moses, who put a veil over his face, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which was being abolished. 14 But their minds were blinded; for until this day the same veil remaineth untaken away in the reading of the old testament, which veil is done away with in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their hearts. 16 Nevertheless, when they shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with uncovered face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

1 Samuel 19:1-18

1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. 2 But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David; and Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeketh to kill thee. Now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place and hide thyself. 3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father about thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee." 4 And Jonathan spoke well of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, "Let not the king sin against his servant, against David, because he hath not sinned against thee and because his works have been toward thee very good. 5 For he put his life in his hands and slew the Philistine, and the LORD wrought a great salvation for all Israel. Thou sawest it and didst rejoice. Why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?" 6 And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan; and Saul swore, "As the LORD liveth, he shall not be slain." 7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as in times past.

8 And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter, and they fled from him. 9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand. And David played music with his hand. 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.

11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house to watch him and to slay him in the morning. And Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain." 12 So Michal let David down through a window; and he went and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for its head, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him." 16 And when the messengers had come in, behold, there was an image in the bed with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, "Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped?" And Michal answered Saul, "He said unto me, `Let me go: Why should I kill thee?'"

18 So David fled and escaped, and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 14:20

Blessed is the man that doth meditate good things in wisdom, 
and that reasoneth about holy things by his understanding.