SUNDAY, MAY 10TH, 2026
SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER​

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INTRODUCTION​

Jesus does not abandon his followers. Through the Holy Spirit, Jesus comes to
     abide with his disciples of every generation. As Pentecost draws near, we are
     reminded that the risen Christ dwells in us as the Spirit of truth. We receive this
     Spirit in baptism and pray that in our gathering around the Lord’s table the Spirit
     will transform us to be the body of the risen Christ in the world.

PRAYER OF THE DAY

Almighty and ever-living God, you hold together all things in heaven and on earth.
     In your great mercy receive the prayers of all your children, and give to all the
     world the Spirit of your truth and peace, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord,
     who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.​

FIRST READING

ACTS 17:22-31
In Athens, Paul faces the challenge of proclaiming the gospel to Greeks who
     know nothing of either Jewish or Christian tradition. He proclaims that the
     “unknown god” whom they worship is the true Lord of heaven and earth who will
     judge the world with justice through Jesus, whom God has raised from the dead.

22 Paul stood in front of the Areopagus and said, “Athenians, I see how extremely
     spiritual you are in every way. 23 For as I went through the city and looked
     carefully at the objects of your worship, I found among them an altar with the
     inscription, ‘To an unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I
     proclaim to you. 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, he who is
     Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by human hands, 25 nor
     is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself
     gives to all mortals life and breath and all things. 26 From one ancestor he made
     all peoples to inhabit the whole earth, and he allotted the times of their existence
     and the boundaries of the places where they would live, 27 so that they would
     search for God and perhaps fumble about for him and find him—though indeed
     he is not far from each one of us. 28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our
     being’; as even some of your own poets have said,
     ‘For we, too, are his offspring.’

     29 “Since we are God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the deity is like gold
     or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals.
     30 While God has overlooked the times of human ignorance, now he commands
     all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed a day on which he will
     have the world judged in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of
     this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

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PSALM

PSALM 66:8-20
(Response) Bless our God, you peoples; let the sound of praise be heard. (Ps. 66:8)

8 Bless our God, you peoples;
let the sound of praise be heard.
9 Our God has kept us among the living
and has not allowed our feet to slip.
(Response) Bless our God, you peoples; let the sound of praise be heard. (Ps. 66:8)

10 For you, O God, have tested us;
you have tried us just as silver is tried.
11 You brought us into the net;
you laid heavy burdens upon our backs.
12 You let people ride over our heads; we went through fire and water,
but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.
13 I will enter your house with burnt offerings
and will pay you my vows—
14 those that I promised with my lips
and spoke with my mouth when I was in trouble.
15 I will offer you burnt offerings of fatlings with the smoke of rams;
I will give you oxen and goats.
(Response) Bless our God, you peoples; let the sound of praise be heard. (Ps. 66:8)

16 Come and listen, all you who believe,
and I will tell you what God has done for me.
17 I called out to God with my mouth,
and praised the Lord with my tongue.
18 If I had cherished evil in my heart,
the Lord would not have heard me;
19 but in truth God has heard me
and has attended to the sound of my prayer.
20 Blessed be God, who has not rejected my prayer,
nor withheld unfailing love from me.
(Response) Bless our God, you peoples; let the sound of praise be heard. (Ps. 66:8)

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SECOND READING

1ST PETER 3:13-22
The author of 1st Peter encourages Christians to remain faithful even in the face
     of defamation and persecution. In baptism we are made clean to act in
     accordance with what is right.

13 Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good? 14 But even if you
     do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and
     do not be intimidated, 15 but in your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be
     ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for
     the hope that is in you, 16 yet do it with gentleness and respect. Maintain a good
     conscience so that, when you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good
     conduct in Christ may be put to shame. 17 For it is better to suffer for doing good,
     if suffering should be God’s will, than to suffer for doing evil. 18 For Christ also
     suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring
     you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, 19 in
     which also he went and made a proclamation to the spirits in prison, 20 who in
     former times did not obey, when God waited patiently in the days of Noah, during
     the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight lives, were saved through
     water. 21 And baptism, which this prefigured, now saves you—not as a removal
     of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the
     resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right
     hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers made subject to him.​

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​​​​GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Alleluia. Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them,
     and we will come to them and make our home with them. Alleluia. (John 14:23)

GOSPEL READING

JOHN 14:15-21
       In final words to his disciples on the night of his arrest, Jesus encourages obedience
     to his commandments and speaks of the Spirit, who will be with them forever.

[Jesus said to the disciples:] 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
     16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you
     forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it
     neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and
     he will be in you.

     18 “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. 19 In a little while the world
     will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. 20 On
     that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.
     21 They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me,
     and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and
     reveal myself to them.”​

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