Sunday between 5 and 11 June    (if after Trinity Sunday)    

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

First Reading - 1 Kings 17.17-24

A reading from the first book of Kings. There was a famine throughout the land, and the prophet Elijah was staying with a widow at Sarepta, in Lebanon. The son of the widow became ill, with an illness so severe that there was no breath left in him. The widow said to Elijah, ‘What do you have against me? Have you come to accuse me of sin, and to punish me with the death of my son?’ Elijah took her son from her arms, carried him up to his room, laid him down, and cried out to the Lord, saying, ‘O Lord my God, must you bring such adversity, even upon the widow in this house where I am staying, by killing her son?’ And weeping upon the body of her son, Elijah cried out, three times, to the Lord: ‘O Lord my God, let his life return to him.’ And the Lord listened to the voice of Elijah; and the life of the son returned to him. And Elijah took the son down into the house, and gave him to his mother, saying, ‘See, your son is alive.’ And the woman said to Elijah, ‘Now I know that you are a prophet of God, and that the words you speak are truly from the Lord.’ This is the word of the Lord.

Second Reading - Galatians 1.11-16,18,22-24

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians. My brothers and sisters, I received the gospel that I now proclaim not from any human source, but by direct revelation from Jesus Christ. You will have heard how I was once so zealous for the traditions of my ancestors that I was actively persecuting the church of God, and seeking to destroy it.

But God had determined, before I was even born, that I was to proclaim, to all nations, the good news of the Son of God. When, by God’s grace, the Son of God was revealed to me, I did not, at first, confer with anyone else. It was only after three years that I went up to Jerusalem, to visit Peter, and stayed with him for fifteen days. News spread to the churches of Judea before I had even visited them, and they gave glory and praise to God when they heard that I was no longer persecuting the church, but that I was, instead, proclaiming the very faith that I had once sought to destroy. This is the word of the Lord.

Gospel - Luke 7.11-17

Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke. Jesus was approaching a town called Nain, just south of Nazareth, with his disciples, and a large crowd, following. As they approached the town, a funeral procession was coming out through the town gate, with a large crowd surrounding the mother of the man who had died. She was already a widow, and she had no other son. When the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her, and he said to her, ‘Do not weep.’ Then he approached the wooden frame on which the body was being carried, and he touched it, saying, ‘Young man, I say to you, arise!’ And the one who had been dead sat up, and began to speak. And Jesus presented him to his mother. All were astounded; and they glorified God, saying, ‘God is with us’, and, ‘A great prophet has arisen amongst us.’ And the news about Jesus spread throughout Judea and all the surrounding country. This is the Gospel of the Lord.