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First Reading
Psalmody
Second Reading
Gospel Reading
First Reading
Acts 2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come,
the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from
heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it
filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as
of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in
other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
Now there were devout Jews from every
nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd
gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in
the native language of each. Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are
not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that we
hear, each of us, in our own native language? Parthians, Medes,
Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus
and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya
belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and
proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-- in our own languages we hear them
speaking about God's deeds of power." All were amazed and perplexed,
saying to one another, "What does this mean?" But others sneered and
said, "They are filled with new wine."
But Peter, standing with the eleven,
raised his voice and addressed them, "Men of Judea and all who live
in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say.
Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine
o'clock in the morning. No, this is what was spoken through the
prophet Joel:
- `In the last days it will
be, God declares,
- that I will pour out my
Spirit upon all flesh,
- and your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy,
- and your young men shall see
visions,
- and your old men shall dream
dreams.
- Even upon my slaves, both
men and women,
- in those days I will pour
out my Spirit;
- and they shall prophesy.
- And I will show portents in
the heaven above
- and signs on the earth
below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
- The sun shall be turned to
darkness
- and the moon to blood,
- before the coming of the
Lord's great and glorious day.
- Then everyone who calls on
the name of the Lord shall be saved.' "
Psalmody
Psalm 104:25-35, 37b Page 736, BCP
Benedic, anima mea
- 25
- O LORD, how manifold are your
works! *
in wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
- 26
- Yonder is the great and wide sea
with its living things too many to number, *
creatures both small and great.
- 27
- There move the ships,
and there is that Leviathan, *
which you have made for the sport of it.
- 28
- All of them look to you *
to give them their food in due season.
- 29
- You give it to them; they gather
it; *
you open your hand, and they are filled with good things.
- 30
- You hide your face, and they are
terrified; *
you take away their breath,
and they die and return to their dust.
- 31
- You send forth your Spirit, and
they are created; *
and so you renew the face of the earth.
- 32
- May the glory of the LORD endure
for ever; *
may the LORD rejoice in all his works.
- 33
- He looks at the earth and it
trembles; *
he touches the mountains and they smoke.
- 34
- I will sing to the LORD as long
as I live; *
I will praise my God while I have my being.
- 35
- May these words of mine please
him; *
I will rejoice in the LORD.
- 37b
- Hallelujah!
Second Reading
1 Corinthians 12:3b-13
No one can say "Jesus is Lord" except
by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same
Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and
there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who
activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given
through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the
utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another
faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one
Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to
another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of
tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are
activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one
individually just as the Spirit chooses.
For just as the body is one and has
many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one
body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body-- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-- and we
were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Gospel Reading
John 7:37-39
On the last day of the festival, the
great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone
who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink.
As the scripture has said, `Out of the believer's heart shall flow
rivers of living water.'" Now he said this about the Spirit, which
believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit,
because Jesus was not yet glorified. |
