Catholic Reading of the Day

Sirach 48:1-14 (Elijah was covered by the whirlwind, and Elisha was filled with his spirit.)

2 Chronicles 24:17-25 (Zechariah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.) 2 Timothy 2:8-13; 3:10-12 (All who desire to live a godly life in Christ will be persecuted)

Exodus 19:2-6 (You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.) Romans 5:6-11 (If we were reconciled by the death of the Son, much more shall we be saved by his life.)

Isaiah 61:1-3 (The Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.)

Deuteronomy 7:6-11 · (The Lord loves you and chose you.) 1 John 4:7-16 · (God loved us.)

Acts 11:21-26; 13:1-3 (He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith.)

1 Kings 18:20-39 ·(Let this people know that you are God, and that you have turned their hearts back.)

1 Kings 17:7-16 · (The jar of flour was not spent according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by Elijah.) Colossians 3:12-17 · (Family life in the Lord.)

1 Kings 17:1-6 · (Elijah stands before the Lord God of Israel.)

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16 (He fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know.) 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 ·(Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body.)

2 Timothy 4:1-8 ·(Do the work of an evangelist. I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the Lord will award me the crown of righteousness.) Ezekiel 34:11-16 ·(I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down.)

2 Timothy 3:10-17 ·(All who desire to live a godly life in Christ will be persecuted.) Acts 26:19-23 ·(Christ would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles.)

2 Timothy 2:8-15 ·(The word of God is not bound! If we have died with him, we will also live with him.)

2 Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12 · (Fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.) 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 7, 9-14 ·(The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life.)

2 Peter 3:12-15, 17-18 ·(We are waiting for new heavens and a new earth.) 2 Corinthians 6:4-10 ·(We are treated as dying, and behold, we live.)

2 Peter 1:2-7 ·(He has granted to us his precious promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature.) 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 ·(It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.)

Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 (The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious) 2 Corinthians 13:11-14 · (The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit)

Jude 17, 20-25 ·(God is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory.)

1 Peter 4:7-13 (Be good stewards of God’s varied grace.) 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 (Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!)

Genesis 22:9-18 · (The sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith.) Hebrews 10:4-10 ·(I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.)

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

1 Peter 1:10-16 ·(They prophesied about the grace that was to be yours. Therefore, being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace.) Philippians 4:4-9 · (Whatever is pure, think about these things.)

Genesis 3:9-15, 20 ·(I will put enmity between your offspring and the offspring of the woman.) Acts 1:12-14 ·(All with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer.)

Acts 2:1-11 · (They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak.) 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 (In one Spirit we were all baptised into one body.)

Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 ·(He lived in Rome proclaiming the kingdom of God.)