Lectionary for Ya'akov

The playlist of songs and hymns for this week is available on YouTube . The Pharisees and the Saduccees Come to Tempt Jesus - Les pharisiens et les saducéens viennent pour tenter Jésus  by James Tissot, 1886–1894,  Brooklyn Museum . This is an illustration of Mark 7:1-23. Handwashing Basin and Pitcher by a Persian artist, early 20th century, Jewish Museum Passover Seder: Ritual Handwashing by Arnold Eagle, 1930s, Jewish Museum . Ritual handwashing is still practiced by Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. Mark 7:1-23 CSB The Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him. They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders. When they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they have washed. And there are many other customs they have received and keep, like the ...

The playlist of songs and hymns for this week is available on YouTube . Jésus enseigne dans les synagogues - Jesus Teaches in the Synagogues  by James Tissot, 1886 to 1896,  Brooklyn Museum .  This painting is a representation of Jesus teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum . Christ teaching in Capernaum  by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878-1879,  Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie . This is an unfinished painting as the artist got ill and died shortly after starting the painting.    This painting is a representation of Jesus teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. John 6:60-69 CSB Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?” Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, “Does this offend you? Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to...