Scripture reading from John 1:6-8, 19-28

Scripture reading from Mark 1:1-8

Scripture reading from Mark 13:24-37

Scripture reading from Matthew 25:31-46

Scripture reading from Matthew 25:14-30

Scripture reading Matthew 25:1-13

If some of the branches have been broken off, and you,
though a wild olive shoot,
have been grafted in among the others
and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches.
If you do, consider this:
You do not support the root, but the root supports you.

If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,”
and believe in your heart
that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
For he says to Moses,
“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.