Category: Daily Readings

Second Kings 5: 14-17

5:14	So he descended and washed in the Jordan seven times, in accord with the word of the man of God. And his flesh was restored, like the flesh of a little child. And he was made clean.
5:15	And returning to the man of God, with his entire retinue, he arrived, and stood before him, and he said: “Truly, I know there is no other God, in all the earth, except in Israel. And so I beg you to accept a blessing from your servant.”
5:16	But he responded, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And though he urged him strongly, he did not agree at all.
5:17	And Naaman said: “As you wish. But I beg you to grant to me, your servant, that I may take from here the burden of two mules from the ground. For your servant will no longer offer holocaust or victim to other gods, except to the Lord.

Second Timothy 2: 8- 13

2:8	Be mindful that the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the offspring of David, has risen again from the dead, according to my Gospel.
2:9	I labor in this Gospel, even while chained like an evildoer. But the Word of God is not bound.
2:10	I endure all things for this reason: for the sake of the elect, so that they, too, may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with heavenly glory.
2:11	It is a faithful saying: that if we have died with him, we will also live with him.
2:12	If we suffer, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us.
2:13	If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful: he is not able to deny himself.

Luke 17: 11-19

17:11	And it happened that, while he was traveling to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
17:12	And as he was entering a certain town, ten leprous men met him, and they stood at a distance.
17:13	And they lifted up their voice, saying, “Jesus, Teacher, take pity on us.”
17:14	And when he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it happened that, as they were going, they were cleansed.
17:15	And one of them, when he saw that he was cleansed, returned, magnifying God with a loud voice.
17:16	And he fell face down before his feet, giving thanks. And this one was a Samaritan.
17:17	And in response, Jesus said: “Were not ten made clean? And so where are the nine?
17:18	Was no one found who would return and give glory to God, except this foreigner?”
17:19	And he said to him: “Rise up, go forth. For your faith has saved you.”

Reading

Romans 1: 1- 7

1:1	Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God,
1:2	which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures,
1:3	about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh,
1:4	the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:5	through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles,
1:6	from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:
1:7	To all who are at Rome, the beloved of God, called as saints. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Gospel

Luke 11: 29- 32

11:29	Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: “This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
11:30	For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation.
11:31	The queen of the South will rise up, at the judgment, with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, more than Solomon is here.
11:32	The men of Nineveh will rise up, at the judgment, with this generation, and they will condemn it. For at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, more than Jonah is here.

Malachi 3: 13- 18, 4: 1- 2

3:13	Your words have gathered strength over me, says the Lord.
3:14	And you have said, “What have we spoken against you?” You have said, “He labors in vain who serves God,” and, “What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?
3:15	Therefore, we now call the arrogant blessed, as if those who work impiety have been built up, and as if they have tempted God and been saved.”
3:16	Then those who fear the Lord spoke, each one with his neighbor. And the Lord paid attention and heeded. And a book of remembrance was written in his sight, for those who fear the Lord and for those who consider his name.
3:17	And they will be my special possession, says the Lord of hosts, on the day that I act. And I will spare them, just as a man spares his son who serves him.
3:18	And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.

4:1	For, behold, the day will arrive, kindled like a furnace, and all the arrogant and all those who act impiously will be stubble. And the approaching day will inflame them, says the Lord of hosts; it will leave behind for them neither root, nor sprout.
4:2	But unto you, who fear my name, the Sun of justice will arise, and health will be in his wings. And you will go forth and leap like the calves of the herd.

Luke 11: 5- 13

11:5	And he said to them: “Which of you will have a friend and will go to him in the middle of the night, and will say to him: ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,
11:6	because a friend of mine has arrived from a journey to me, and I do not have anything to set before him.’
11:7	And from within, he would answer by saying: ‘Do not disturb me. The door is closed now, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give it to you.’
11:8	Yet if he will persevere in knocking, I tell you that, even though he would not get up and give it to him because he is a friend, yet due to his continued insistence, he will get up and give him whatever he needs.
11:9	And so I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
11:10	For everyone who asks, receives. And whoever seeks, finds. And whoever knocks, it shall be opened to him.
11:11	So then, who among you, if he asks his father for bread, he would give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he would give him a serpent, instead of a fish?
11:12	Or if he will ask for an egg, he would offer to him a scorpion?
11:13	Therefore, if you, being evil, know how to give good things to your sons, how much more will your Father give, from heaven, a spirit of goodness to those who ask him?”

Jonah 4: 1- 11

4:1	And Jonah was afflicted with a great affliction, and he was angry.
4:2	And he prayed to the Lord, and he said, “I beg you, Lord, was this not my word, when I was still in my own land? Because of this, I knew beforehand to flee into Tarshish. For I know that you are a lenient and merciful God, patient and great in compassion, and forgiving despite ill will.
4:3	And now, Lord, I ask you to take my life from me. For it is better for me to die than to live.”
4:4	And the Lord said, “Do you really think you are right to be angry?”
4:5	And Jonah went out of the city, and he sat opposite the east of the city. And he made himself a shelter there, and he was sitting under it in the shadow, until he might see what would befall the city.
4:6	And the Lord God prepared an ivy, and it ascended over the head of Jonah so as to be a shadow over his head, and to protect him (for he had labored hard). And Jonah rejoiced because of the ivy, with great rejoicing.
4:7	And God prepared a worm, when dawn approached on the next day, and it struck the ivy, and it dried up.
4:8	And when the sun had risen, the Lord ordered a hot and burning wind. And the sun beat down on the head of Jonah, and he burned. And he petitioned for his soul that he might die, and he said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
4:9	And the Lord said to Jonah, “Do you really think that you are right to be angry because of the ivy?” And he said, “I am right to be angry even unto death.”
4:10	And the Lord said, “You grieve for the ivy, for which you have not labored and which you did not cause to grow, though it had been born during one night, and during one night perished.
4:11	And shall I not spare Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand men, who do not know the difference between their right and their left, and many beasts?”

Luke 11: 1- 4

11:1	And it happened that, while he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”
11:2	And he said to them: “When you are praying, say: Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.
11:3	Give us this day our daily bread.
11:4	And forgive us our sins, since we also forgive all who are indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation.”

Reading

Jonah 1: 1- 2: 2, 11

1:1	And the word of the Lord came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying:
1:2	Rise and go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach in it. For its malice has ascended before my eyes.
1:3	And Jonah rose in order to flee from the face of the Lord to Tarshish. And he went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. And he paid its fare, and he went down into it, in order to go with them to Tarshish from the face of the Lord.
1:4	But the Lord sent a great wind into the sea. And a great tempest took place in the sea, and the ship was in danger of being crushed.
1:5	And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.
1:6	And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
1:7	And a man said to his shipmate, “Come, and let us cast lots, so that we may know why this disaster is upon us.” And they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
1:8	And they said to him: “Explain to us what is the reason that this disaster is upon us. What is your work? Which is your country? And where are you going? Or which people are you from?”
1:9	And he said to them, “I am Hebrew, and I fear the Lord God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.”
1:10	And the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, “Why have you done this?” (For the men knew that he was fleeing from the face of the Lord, because he had told them.)
1:11	And they said to him, “What are we to do with you, so that the sea will cease for us?” For the sea flowed and swelled.
1:12	And he said to them, “Take me, and cast me into the sea, and the sea will cease for you. For I know that it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.”
1:13	And the men were rowing, so as to return to dry land, but they did not succeed. For the sea flowed and swelled against them.
1:14	And they cried out to the Lord, and they said, “We beseech you, Lord, do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not attribute to us innocent blood. For you, Lord, have done just as it pleased you.”
1:15	And they took Jonah and cast him into the sea. And the sea was stilled from its fury.
1:16	And the men feared the Lord greatly, and they sacrificed victims to the Lord, and they made vows.

2:1	And the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights.
2:2	And Jonah prayed to the Lord, his God, from the belly of the fish.

2:11	And the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land

Gospel

The Holy Gospel According to Luke   10: 25-37

10:25	And behold, a certain expert in the law rose up, testing him and saying, “Teacher, what must I do to possess eternal life?”
10:26	But he said to him: “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
10:27	In response, he said: “You shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from all your strength, and from all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
10:28	And he said to him: “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
10:29	But since he wanted to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
10:30	Then Jesus, taking this up, said: “A certain man descended from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he happened upon robbers, who now also plundered him. And inflicting him with wounds, they went away, leaving him behind, half-alive.
10:31	And it happened that a certain priest was descending along the same way. And seeing him, he passed by.
10:32	And similarly a Levite, when he was near the place, also saw him, and he passed by.
10:33	But a certain Samaritan, being on a journey, came near him. And seeing him, he was moved by mercy.
10:34	And approaching him, he bound up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. And setting him on his pack animal, he brought him to an inn, and he took care of him.
10:35	And the next day, he took out two denarii, and he gave them to the proprietor, and he said: ‘Take care of him. And whatever extra you will have spent, I will repay to you at my return.’
10:36	Which of these three, does it seem to you, was a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”
10:37	Then he said, “The one who acted with mercy toward him.” And Jesus said to him, “Go, and act similarly.”

Habakkuk 1: 2- 3, 2: 2- 4

1:2	How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save?
1:3	Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful.

2:2	And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it.
2:3	For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered.
2:4	Behold, he who is unbelieving, his soul will not be right within himself; but he who is just shall live in his faith.

Second Timothy 1: 6- 8, 13- 14

1:6	Because of this, I admonish you to revive the grace of God, which is in you by the imposition of my hands.
1:7	For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
1:8	And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God,
1:13	Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1:14	Guard the good entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit, who lives within us.

Luke 17: 5- 10

17:5	And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
17:6	But the Lord said: “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you may say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be transplanted into the sea.’ And it would obey you.
17:7	But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, would say to him, as he was returning from the field, ‘Come in immediately; sit down to eat,’
17:8	and would not say to him: ‘Prepare my dinner; gird yourself and minister to me, while I eat and drink; and after these things, you shall eat and drink?’
17:9	Would he be grateful to that servant, for doing what he commanded him to do?
17:10	I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: ‘We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.’ ”

Reading

Baruch   4: 5-12, 27-29

4:5	Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel.
4:6	You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity.
4:7	For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God.
4:8	For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse.
4:9	For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, “Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow.
4:10	For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them.
4:11	For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
4:12	Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.
4:25	Sons, endure patiently the wrath that has come upon you, for your enemy has persecuted you, but you will quickly see his destruction and you will climb over his neck.
4:26	My delicate ones have walked rough ways, for they were regarded as a flock torn apart by enemies.
4:27	Be ever more peaceful in soul, sons, and call out to the Lord, for you will be remembered by him who led you away.
4:28	For as much as you thought to go astray from God, ten times as much again he will require of you when converting.
4:29	For he who led you into evil, he himself will again lead you to eternal happiness with your salvation.”

Gospel

Luke   10: 17-24

10:17	Then the seventy-two returned with gladness, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us, in your name.”
10:18	And he said to them: “I was watching as Satan fell like lightning from heaven.
10:19	Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.
10:20	Yet truly, do not choose to rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
10:21	In the same hour, he exulted in the Holy Spirit, and he said: “I confess to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the prudent, and have revealed them to little ones. It is so, Father, because this way was pleasing before you.
10:22	All things have been delivered to me by my Father. And no one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and those to whom the Son has chosen to reveal him.”
10:23	And turning to his disciples, he said: “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see.
10:24	For I say to you, that many prophets and kings wanted to see the things that you see, and they did not see them, and to hear the things that you hear, and they did not hear them.”