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| "Jesus Preaches in a Ship" (top) & "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes" (bottom) -- by James Tissot |
FIRST
READING: Isaiah
6: 1 - 2, 3 - 8
1
In the year that King Uzzi'ah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
2
Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered
his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
3
And one called to another and said: "Holy, holy, holy is the
LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory."
4
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who
called, and the house was filled with smoke.
5
And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my
eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
6
Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having in his hand a burning
coal which he had taken with tongs from the altar.
7
And he touched my mouth, and said: "Behold, this has touched
your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin forgiven."
8
And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."
PSALM:
Psalms 138:
1 - 5, 7 - 8
1
I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I
sing thy praise;
2
I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy
steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above
everything thy name and thy word.
3
On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou
didst increase.
4
All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O LORD, for they have
heard the words of thy mouth;
5
and they shall sing of the ways of the LORD, for great is the glory
of the LORD.
7
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life;
thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and
thy right hand delivers me.
8
The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD,
endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
SECOND
READING: 1
Corinthians 15: 1 - 11 Or
15:
3 - 8, 11
1
Now I would remind you, brethren, in what terms I preached to you the
gospel, which you received, in which you stand,
2
by which you are saved, if you hold it fast -- unless you believed in
vain.
3
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received,
that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
4
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance
with the scriptures,
5
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most
of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
7
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
9
For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was
not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them,
though it was not I, but the grace of God which is with me.
11
Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Or
3
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received,
that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,
4
that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance
with the scriptures,
5
and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
6
Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most
of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.
7
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.
8
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
11
Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
GOSPEL:
Luke 5:
1 - 11
1
While the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he was
standing by the lake of Gennes'aret.
2
And he saw two boats by the lake; but the fishermen had gone out of
them and were washing their nets.
3
Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put
out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people
from the boat.
4
And when he had ceased speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into
the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
5
And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took
nothing! But at your word I will let down the nets."
6
And when they had done this, they enclosed a great shoal of fish; and
as their nets were breaking,
7
they beckoned to their partners in the other boat to come and help
them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to
sink.
8
But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying,
"Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord."
9
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the catch of
fish which they had taken;
10
and so also were James and John, sons of Zeb'edee, who were partners
with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid;
henceforth you will be catching men."
11
And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything
and followed him.
