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First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Moses spoke to the people, saying: “This day the LORD, your God, commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then, to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. Today you…
First Reading: Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 Thus says the LORD: Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted, to the tyrannical city! She hears no voice, accepts no correction; In the LORD she has not trusted, to her God she has not drawn near. For then…
First Reading: 2 Macabees 7:1, 20-31 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God’s law.Most admirable and worthy of everlasting…
First Reading: Romans 8:31-39 Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along…
First Reading: Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity…
First Reading: Numbers 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26A-29A, 34-35 The LORD said to Moses [in the desert of Paran,] “Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the children of Israel. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them…
First Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:6-11, 16, 17 For it is the God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face…
First Reading: Tobit 6:10-11; 7:1, 9-17; 8:4-9 The angel said to the young man, “Brother, today we shall stay with Raguel. He is your relative, and he has an only daughter named Sarah. I will suggest that she be given…
First Reading: Acts 17:15, 22–18:1 Those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they departed. So Paul, standing in the middle of…
Poor Nicodemus. Sometimes I don’t know what Christ is talking about either, but usually when I do it’s only because I’m on this side of the Resurrection. I’ve got two thousand years of smarter, holier people explaining Christ’s words to me….
What tone do you use when you read Christ’s words? In your head, as you’re reading the Gospels, when Jesus speaks, what tone of voice do you assign to Him? Usually the first time I read through a passage I…
First Reading: Genesis 2:4-9, 15-17 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet…
