September 24, 2026

2Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! 3Vanity of Human Toil - What profit have we from all the toil which we toil at under the sun? 4One generation departs and another generation comes, but the world forever stays. 5The sun rises and the sun sets; then it presses on to the place where it rises. 6Shifting south, then north, back and forth shifts the wind, constantly shifting its course. 7All rivers flow to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they flow, the rivers continue to flow. 8All things are wearisome, too wearisome for words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing nor has the ear enough of hearing. 9What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun! 10Even the thing of which we say, “See, this is new!” has already existed in the ages that preceded us. 11There is no remembrance of past generations; nor will future generations be remembered by those who come after them.

3You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!” 4A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night, 5you wash them away; They sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb. 6In the morning it blooms only to pass away; in the evening it is wilted and withered. 12Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. 13III - Relent, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! 14Fill us at daybreak with your mercy, that all our days we may sing for joy. 17May the favor of the Lord our God be ours. Prosper the work of our hands! Prosper the work of our hands!

6Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

7Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed because some were saying, “John has been raised from the dead”; 8others were saying, “Elijah has appeared”; still others, “One of the ancient prophets has arisen.” 9But Herod said, “John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see him. The Return of the Twelve and the Feeding of the Five Thousand.