Catholic Reading of the Day

Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 · (You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.) 2 Corinthians 4:1-2, 5-7 ·(We proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for the sake of Jesus.)

Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 · (He has told you, O man, and what does the Lord require of you.) Ezekiel 34:11-16 · (I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I myself will make them lie down.)

Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 ·(You give repentance for sins.) Romans 8:26-27 ·(The Spirit intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.)

Micah 2:1-5 (They covet fields and seize them, and take houses away.)

Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 (I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears.)

Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 (You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!)

Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16 ( Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it?) Ephesians 3:14-19 (To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge.)

Isaiah 7:1-9 (If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.) 1 John 3:14-18 (We ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.)

Isaiah 1:10-17 (Wash yourselves; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes.)

Isaiah 55:10-11 (The rain makes the earth bring forth and sprout.) Romans 8:18-23 (The creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.)

Proverbs 2:1-9 (Incline your heart to understanding.)

Hosea 14:1-9 (We will say no more, “Our God,” to the work of our hands.)

Hosea 11:1-4, 8-9 ·(My heart recoils within me.)1 John 5:1-5 ·(This is the victory that has overcome the world — our faith.)

Hosea 10:1-3, 7-8, 12 ·(It is the time to seek the Lord.)

Hosea 8:4-7, 11-13 ·(They sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.)

Hosea 2:14, 15-16, 19-20 ·(I will betroth you to me for ever.)1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20 ·(Your bodies are members of Christ.)

Zechariah 9:9-10 ·(Behold, your king is coming to you, humble.)Romans 8:9, 11-13 ·(If by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.)

Amos 9:11-15 ·(I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and I will plant them on their land.) 1 John 3:14-18 (We ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.)

Ephesians 2:19-22 ·(Built on the foundation of the Apostles.)

Amos 7:10-17 · (Go, prophesy to my people.)

Amos 5:14-15, 21-24 (Take away from me the noise of your songs; but let righteousness be like an ever-flowing stream.) 1 Peter 3:8-18 (Even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you will be blessed.)

Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 (The Lord God has spoken; who can but prophesy?) Romans 8:31-39 ·(Nothing in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ.)

Amos 2:6-10, 13-16 ·(They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth.)

Acts 12:1-11 ·(Now I am sure that the Lord has rescued me from the hand of Herod.) 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 ·(There is laid up for me the crown of righteousness.)

Lamentations 2:2, 10-14, 18-19 (Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Sion.) 2 Timothy 4:1-5 ·(Do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry.)

2 Kings 25:1-12 ·(So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.)

2 Kings 24:8-17 (The king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon Jechoiachin and all the men of valour.)

Isaiah 49:1-6 ·(I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.) Acts 13:22-26 (Before the coming of Christ, John had proclaimed a baptism of repentance.)

2 Kings 19:9-11, 14-21, 31-35, 36 (I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for David.) 1 Kings 19:16, 19-21 ·(Elisha arose and went after Elijah.)

2 Maccabees 6:18, 21, 24-31 ·(I am glad to suffer these things because I fear him.)

Jeremiah 20:10-13 ·(He has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers.) Romans 5:12-15 ·(The free gift is not like the trespass.)

Philippians 3:8-14 ·(For the sake of Christ I have suffered the loss of all things, becoming like him in his death.) 2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 ·(They anointed Joash and said: Long live the king!)

2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 ·(Behold, chariots of fire and Elijah went up into heaven.)

1 Kings 21:17-29 (You have made Israel to sin.) Deuteronomy 10:8-9(The Lord is his inheritance)

1 Kings 21:1-16 (Naboth has been stoned; he is dead.)

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)

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

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.)