The Lectern
Ordinary TimegreenThe long green season: not lesser, but the ordered weeks in which most of a life is actually lived.
The table, set for today: a psalm, a chapter of the Gospel read continuously through the year, and one voice from the shelves. The same page for everyone — come back tomorrow and it is laid again.
The company of the day
- Saint Clare, VirginMemorial
At Rome, [in the year 286,] between the two Laurel trees, the holy martyr Tiburtius. In the persecution under the Emperor Diocletian the judge Fabian caused him to walk with bare feet upon burning coals, and as he confessed Christ all the more firmly, commanded him to be led to the third mile-stone outside the city,…
The Roman Martyrology, on this day →
The readings
The Psalm
Psalm 73
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity…
Lantern Modern Standard
The Gospel
Luke 1
Since many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them to us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers o…
read continuously, Matthew to John
A voice from the shelves
Revelations of Divine Love · Revelations 14
CHAPTER XIV "The age of every man shall be acknowledged before him in Heaven, and every man shall be rewarded for his willing service and for his time" After this our good Lord said: I thank thee for thy travail, and…
Julian of Norwich
Keeping company
The full cloud of witnesses is on the Saints calendar; longer roads through Scripture live in the reading plans. Every reading above can be listened to — press ▶ Listen at the bottom of any chapter.