​Gospel: Luke 5:33-39
 
The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
   “The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers,
   and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same;
   but yours eat and drink.”
Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast
   while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
   then they will fast in those days.”
And he also told them a parable.
“No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one.
Otherwise, he will tear the new
   and the piece from it will not match the old cloak.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins,
   and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.
Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins.
And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new,
   for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

Preacher: John Harold Lucas

​Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
 
While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God,
   he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.
He saw two boats there alongside the lake;
   the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets.
Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon,
   he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore.
Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.
After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon,
   “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.”
Simon said in reply,
   “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing,
   but at your command I will lower the nets.”
When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish
   and their nets were tearing.
They signaled to their partners in the other boat
   to come to help them.
They came and filled both boats
   so that the boats were in danger of sinking.
When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said,
   “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.”
For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him
   and all those with him,
   and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee,
   who were partners of Simon.
Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid;
   from now on you will be catching men.”
When they brought their boats to the shore,
   they left everything and followed him.

Preacher: Mico Radan

​Gospel: Luke 4:38-44
 
After Jesus left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon.
Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever,
   and they interceded with him about her.
He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her.
She got up immediately and waited on them.
 
At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him.
He laid his hands on each of them and cured them.
And demons also came out from many, shouting, “You are the Son of God.”
But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak
   because they knew that he was the Christ.
 
At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place.
The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him,
   they tried to prevent him from leaving them.
But he said to them, “To the other towns also
   I must proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God,
   because for this purpose I have been sent.”
And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

Preacher: Davide Zilli

​Gospel: Luke 4:31-37
St. Gregory the Great
Pope and Doctor of the Church
Memorial
 
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee.
He taught them on the sabbath,
   and they were astonished at his teaching
   because he spoke with authority.
In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon,
   and he cried out in a loud voice,
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!”
Then the demon threw the man down in front of them
   and came out of him without doing him any harm.
They were all amazed and said to one another,
   “What is there about his word?
For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits,
   and they come out.”
And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.

Preacher: Kim Travero

​Gospel: Luke 4:16-30
 
Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had grown up,
   and went according to his custom
   into the synagogue on the sabbath day.
He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah.
He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written:
 
      The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
         because he has anointed me
            to bring glad tidings to the poor.
      He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives
         and recovery of sight to the blind,
            to let the oppressed go free,
      and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.
 
Rolling up the scroll,
   he handed it back to the attendant and sat down,
   and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him.
He said to them,
   “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.”
And all spoke highly of him
   and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
They also asked, “Is this not the son of Joseph?”
He said to them, “Surely you will quote me this proverb,
   ‘Physician, cure yourself,’ and say, ‘Do here in your native place
   the things that we heard were done in Capernaum.’”
And he said,
   “Amen, I say to you, no prophet is accepted in his own native place.
Indeed, I tell you,
   there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah
   when the sky was closed for three and a half years
   and a severe famine spread over the entire land.
It was to none of these that Elijah was sent,
   but only to a widow in Zarephath in the land of Sidon.
Again, there were many lepers in Israel
   during the time of Elisha the prophet;
   yet not one of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”
When the people in the synagogue heard this,
   they were all filled with fury.
They rose up, drove him out of the town,
   and led him to the brow of the hill
   on which their town had been built, to hurl him down headlong.
But he passed through the midst of them and went away.

Preacher: Rodion Uy