Preparing for the Fifth
Sunday of Easter
Year B

Daily Readings for Saturday
May 1, 2021

Prayer

God, 

you sent your Son into the world 

that we might live through him. 

May we abide in his risen life 

so that we may bear the fruit of love for one another 

and know the fullness of joy. Amen.

 

Psalm 22:25-31

All shall turn to the Lord

 

From you comes my praise in the great congregation;

    my vows I will pay before those who fear him.

The poor shall eat and be satisfied;

    those who seek him shall praise the Lord.

    May your hearts live forever!

All the ends of the earth shall remember

    and turn to the Lord;

and all the families of the nations

    shall worship before him.

For dominion belongs to the Lord,

    and he rules over the nations.

To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down;

    before him shall bow all who go down to the dust,

    and I shall live for him.

Posterity will serve him;

    future generations will be told about the Lord,

and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn,

    saying that he has done it.

 

Amos 9:7-15

The mountains shall drip sweet wine

 

Are you not like the Ethiopians to me,

O people of Israel? says the Lord.

Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt,

and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the face of the earth

—except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,

says the Lord.

For lo, I will command,

and shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a sieve,

but no pebble shall fall to the ground.

All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

who say, “Evil shall not overtake or meet us.”

On that day I will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen,

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old;

in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations who are called by my name,

says the Lord who does this.

The time is surely coming, says the Lord,

when the one who plows shall overtake the one who reaps,

and the treader of grapes the one who sows the seed;

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

I will plant them upon their land,

and they shall never again be plucked up

out of the land that I have given them,

says the Lord your God.

 

Mark 4:30-32

The kingdom like a mustard seed

 

He also said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”

 

 

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