Sunday 21 January 2018
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
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Jonah 3:1-5, 10 (NRSV)
The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.
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I love the whole book of Jonah. This reading is wonderful. But this is not going to be a Sunday to even think of Jonah as a preaching option given the fact that the following week I will be starting a preaching series on a whole list of Old Testament Easter Vigil readings as Lent and the old pre-Lent are days of preparation to keep the Paschal Feast. So Jonah will appear soon!
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Fr. Timothy Alleman
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