Catholic Reading of the Day

1 Timothy 3:1-13 (A bishop must be above reproach. Deacons likewise must hold the master of the faith with a clear conscience) 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 (He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence)

1 Timothy 2:1-8 (Prayers should be made for all people to God, who desires all people to be saved) Hebrews 5:7-9 (He learned obedience and became the source of eternal salvation)

Numbers 21:4-9 (If anyone were bitten by a serpent, he would look at the bronze serpent and live) Philippians 2:6-11 (He humbled himself, therefore God has highly exalted him)

1 Timothy 1:15-17 (Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners) Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 (To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ)

1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 (Formerly I was a blasphemer, but I received mercy)

Colossians 3:12-17 (Family life in the Lord)

Colossians 3:1-11 (You have died with Christ; put to death therefore what is earthly in you)

Colossians 2:6-15 (God made us alive together with the Lord, having forgiven us all our trespasses) Isaiah 58:6-11 (Share your bread with the hungry)

Romans 8:28-30 (He predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son)

Wisdom 9:13-18 (Who can discern what the Lord wills) Philemon 9-10, 12-17 (Have him back no longer as a bondservant but as a beloved brother)

Colossians 1:21-23 (God has reconciled you, in order to present you holy and blameless)

Colossians 1:15-20 (All things were created through him and for him)

Colossians 1:9-14 ( He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son) Deuteronomy 10:8-9 (The Lord is his inheritance)

1 Thessalonians 2:2-8 (We were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God, but also our own selves)

1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11 (Christ died for us so that we might live with him)

1 Thessalonians 4:13-16 (Through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep)

Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 (Humble yourself so you will find favour in the sight of the Lord) Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24 (You have come to Mount Sion and to the city of the living God)

1 Thessalonians 4:9-11 ·(‘You have been taught by God to love one another.’) 2 Maccabees 6:18, 21, 24-31 ·(‘I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.’)

1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 ·(‘This is the will of God, your sanctification.’) Jeremiah 1:4, 17-19 ·(‘Say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them.’)

1 Thessalonians 3:7-13 ·(‘May the Lord make you increase in love for one another and for all.’ )1 John 4:7-16 · (‘God loved us.’)

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13 · (‘We worked night and day to proclaim to you the gospel of God.’) Sirach 26:1-4, 13-16 ·(‘Like the sun rising, so is the beauty of a good wife in her well-ordered home.’)

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 ·(‘We were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves.’) 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 ·(‘It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.’)

1 Thessalonians 1:1-5, 8-10 (You turned to God from idols, to wait for his Son whom he raised from the dead) Isaiah 58:6-11 (Share your bread with the hungry)

Isaiah 66:18-21 (They shall bring all your brothers from all the nations) Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13 (The lord disciplines the one he loves)

Ruth 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17 ('The Lord has not left you without a redeemer. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.') 2 Corinthians 10:17-11:2 ('I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.')