Catholic Reading of the Day

Ecclesiasticus 48:1-4, 9-12 (The prophet Elijah will come again) Acts 20:17-18, 28-32, 36 (I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, and its power)

Isaiah 48:17-19 (If you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a river) Isaiah 7:10-14, 8:10 (The maiden is with child)

Isaiah 41:13-20 (I, the Holy One of Israel, am your redeemer) Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 (You must love your neighbour as yourself)

Genesis 3:9-15, 20 (The mother of all those who live) Ephesians 1:3-6, 11-12 (Before the world was made God chose us in Christ)

Isaiah 40:1-11 (Consolations from the heart of Jerusalem) Ephesians 3:8-12 (I, who am less that the least of all saints, have been entrusted with this special grace)

Isaiah 35:1-10 (The return of the redeemed through the desert) Isaiah 6:1-8 (Isaiah’s lips cleansed with a burning coal)

Baruch 5:1-9 (God means to show your splendour to every nation) Philippians 1:4-6,8-11 (May you become pure and blameless in preparation for the day of Christ)

Isaiah 29:17-24 (In a very short time , the deaf will hear and the eyes of the blind will see) 1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 ( I should be punished if I did not preach the Gospel)

Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 (The Lord God will be gracious to you and hear your cry) 2 Timothy 1:13-14, 2:1-3 (Keep as your pattern the sound teaching you have heard from me)

Isaiah 26:1-6 (Open the gates; let the upright nation come in)

Isaiah 25:6-10 (The Lord will prepare a banquet for every nation)

Romans 10: 9-18 (Faith comes from what is preached, and what is preached comes from the word of Christ)

Isaiah 2:1-5 (The Lord gathers all nations together into the eternal peace fo the God’s kingdom)

Jeremiah 33:14-16 (I will make a virtuous Branch grow for David) 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 (May you be blameless when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again)

Daniel 7:15-27 (His sovereignty will be an eternal sovereignty)

Daniel 7:2-14 (I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man)

Daniel 6:12-28 (Daniel in the lions’ den) Apocalypse 21:5-7 (I will give water from the well of life to anybody who is thirsty)

Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28 (The writing on the wall) Wisdom 3:1-9 (The souls of the virtuous are in the hands of God)

Daniel 2:31-45 (Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar’s dream) 1 Peter 5:1-4 (Watch over the flock, not simply as a duty but gladly)

Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 (Daniel and his companions are trained to be the king’s servants in Babylon) Hosea 2:16, 17, 21-22 (I will betroth you to myself for ever)

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Daniel 7:13-14 (I saw, coming on the clouds of heaven, one like a son of man) Apocalypse 1:5-8 (Jesus Christ has made us a line of kings and priests)

1 Maccabees 6:1-13 (I remember the wrong I did in Jerusalem)

1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59 (Judas and his brothers purify the sanctuary and dedicate it)

1 Maccabees 2:15-29 (Heaven preserve us from forsaking the Law and its ordinances) Acts 28:11-16, 30-31 (So we came to Rome)