Scripture Readings

All Saints Day
1 November in Year B

The color for All Saints Day (or All Saints Sunday) is white or gold

Scripture readings are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION® NIV® ©1973, 1978, 1984 by the International Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. All rights reserved.

The quotation from the Wisdom of Solomon is taken from the New Revised Standard Version, Copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Old Testament
Psalm
Epistle Reading
Gospel Reading

Old Testament

But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God,
and no torment will ever touch them.
In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died,
and their departure was thought to be a disaster,
and their going from us to be their destruction;
but they are at peace.
For though in the sight of others they were punished,
their hope is full of immortality.
Having been disciplined a little, they will receive great good,
because God tested them and found them worthy of himself;
like gold in the furnace he tried them,
and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.
In the time of their visitation they will shine forth,
and will run like sparks through the stubble.
They will govern nations and rule over peoples,
and the Lord will reign over them forever.
Those who trust in him will understand truth,
and the faithful will abide with him in love,
because grace and mercy are upon his holy ones,
and he watches over his elect.
—Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-9, NRSV

—OR—

On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare
     a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
     the best of meats and the finest of wines.
On this mountain he will destroy
     the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
     he will swallow up death forever.
     The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
     from all faces;
he will remove the disgrace of his people
     from all the earth.
     The LORD has spoken.
     In that day they will say,
“Surely this is our God;
     we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
     let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”
—Isaiah 25:6-9, NIV

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Track One: Psalm

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,
     the world, and all who live in it;
for he founded it upon the seas
     and established it upon the waters.
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?
     Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
     who does not lift up his soul to an idol
     or swear by what is false.
He will receive blessing from the LORD
     and vindication from God his Savior.
Such is the generation of those who seek him,
     who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
          Selah
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
     be lifted up, you ancient doors,
     that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
     The LORD strong and mighty,
     the LORD mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O you gates;
     lift them up, you ancient doors,
     that the King of glory may come in.
Who is he, this King of glory?
     The LORD Almighty—
     he is the King of glory.
          Selah
—Psalm 24, NIV

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Epistle

     Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
     He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
     He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.
—Revelation 21:1-6a, NIV

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Gospel

     When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
     When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
     “Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
     Jesus wept.
     Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
     But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”
     Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. “Take away the stone,” he said.
     “But, Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man, “by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days.”
     Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
     So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”
     When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
     Jesus said to them, “Take off the grave clothes and let him go.”
—John 11:32-44, NIV

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