EASTER VIGIL April 12, 2020 Year A, Revised Common Lectionary [formatted version with line breaks and verse markers removed] Table of Contents • All Texts, Psalm in Poem Format, with Black and White Art Image [pgs.2-8] • Compact Double Column All Texts [pgs.9-14] • Compact Triple Column All Texts [pgs.15-20] • All Texts, Large Font [pgs.21-70] • All Texts, Half Page Format [pgs.71-76] From: Revised Common Lectionary, Vanderbilt Divinity Library http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu EASTER VIGIL vegetation plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees April 12, 2020 of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there Year A, Revised Common Lectionary was morning, the third day. And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth." And it was so. God made the two great lights--the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night--and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day. And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the dome of the sky.” So God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, of every kind, with which the waters swarm, and every winged bird of every kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind, and the cattle of every kind, and everything that creeps upon the ground Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones, St. Nicholas church, of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God Deptford Green, England, late 17th c. said, "Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the Old Testament Readings and Psalms fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, Genesis 1:1-2:4a In the beginning when God created and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the the heavens and the earth. The earth was a formless earth.” So God created humankind in his image, in the void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a image of God he created them; male and female he wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then created them. God blessed them, and God said to God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and God saw that the light was good; and God separated subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and over the birds of the air and over every living thing and the darkness he called Night. And there was that moves upon the earth.” God said, "See, I have evening and there was morning, the first day. And God given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you and let it separate the waters from the waters.” So God shall have them for food. And to every beast of the made the dome and separated the waters that were earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that under the dome from the waters that were above the creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of dome. And it was so. God called the dome Sky. And life, I have given every green plant for food." And it was there was evening and there was morning, the second so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, day. And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be it was very good. And there was evening and there was gathered together into one place, and let the dry land morning, the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth appear." And it was so. God called the dry land Earth, were finished, and all their multitude. And on the and the waters that were gathered together he called seventh day God finished the work that he had done, Seas. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that "Let the earth put forth vegetation plants yielding seed, he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work the seed in it." And it was so. The earth brought forth that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they in as God had commanded him; and the LORD shut him were created. in. The flood continued forty days on the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up the ark, and it rose high Psalm 136:1-9, 23-26 above the earth. The waters swelled and increased ❖ give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his greatly on the earth; and the ark floated on the face of steadfast love endures forever. the waters. At the end of forty days Noah opened the ❖ give thanks to the God of gods, for his steadfast window of the ark that he had made and sent out the love endures forever. raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried ❖ give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his up from the earth. Then he sent out the dove from him, steadfast love endures forever; to see if the waters had subsided from the face of the ❖ who alone does great wonders, for his steadfast ground; but the dove found no place to set its foot, and love endures forever; it returned to him to the ark, for the waters were still on ❖ who by understanding made the heavens, for the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and his steadfast love endures forever; took it and brought it into the ark with him. He waited ❖ who spread out the earth on the waters, for his another seven days, and again he sent out the dove steadfast love endures forever; from the ark; and the dove came back to him in the ❖ who made the great lights, for his steadfast love evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked endures forever; olive leaf; so Noah knew that the waters had subsided ❖ the sun to rule over the day, for his steadfast from the earth. Then he waited another seven days, love endures forever; and sent out the dove; and it did not return to him any ❖ the moon and stars to rule over the night, for more. In the six hundred first year, in the first month, his steadfast love endures forever; the first day of the month, the waters were dried up ❖ It is he who remembered us in our low estate, from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the for his steadfast love endures forever; ark, and looked, and saw that the face of the ground ❖ and rescued us from our foes, for his steadfast was drying. In the second month, on the twenty-seventh love endures forever; day of the month, the earth was dry. Then God said to ❖ who gives food to all flesh, for his steadfast love Noah, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your endures forever. sons and your sons' wives with you. Bring out with you ❖ give thanks to the God of heaven, for his every living thing that is with you of all flesh--birds and steadfast love endures forever. animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth--so that they may abound on the earth, and be Genesis 7:1-5, 11-18; 8:6-18; 9:8-13 Then the LORD fruitful and multiply on the earth.” So Noah went out said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives. Then household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "As for me, I before me in this generation. Take with you seven pairs am establishing my covenant with you and your of all clean animals, the male and its mate; and a pair descendants after you, and with every living creature of the animals that are not clean, the male and its that is with you, the birds, the domestic animals, and mate; and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male every animal of the earth with you, as many as came and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of all out of the ark.