Catholic Reading of the Day

Isaiah 55:10-11 (The rain makes the earth bring forth and sprout)

Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18 (In righteousness shall you judge your neighbour)

Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 (The creation and sin of our first parents) Romans 5:12-19 (Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more)

Isaiah 58:9-14 (If you pour yourself out for the hungry, then shall your light rise in the darkness)

Isaiah 58:1-9 (Is not this the fast that I choose)

Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse)

Joel 2:12-18 (Rend your hearts and not your garments) 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 (Be reconciled to God, Behold, now is the favourable time)

James 1:12-18 (God himself tempts no one) Romans 8:26-30 (For those who love God all things work together for good)

James 1:1-11 (The testing of your faith produces steadfastness, that you may perfect and complete)

Sirach 15:15-20 ( He has not commanded anyone to be ungodly) 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 (A wisdom God decreed before the ages for our glory)

Acts 13:46-49 (Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles)

Kings 11:29-32; 12:19 (Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David)

1 Kings 11:4-13 (Since you have not kept my covenant I will tear the kingdom from you; but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David)

1 Kings 10:1-10 (The Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon) Isaiah 66:10-14 (Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river)

1 King's 8:22-23, 27-30 (You have said,"My name shall be there, that you may listen to the plea of your people Israel) Song of Solomon 8:6-7 (Love is strong as death)

1 King's 8:1-7, 9-13 (They brought the ark of the covenant into the Most Holy Place and a cloud filled the house of the Lord)

Isaiah 58:6-10 (Your light shall break forth like the dawn) 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (I proclaimed to you the mystery of Christ crucified)

1 Kings 3:4-13 (Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people)

Sirach 47:2-11 (David praised the Lord God with all his heart and loved God) Galatians 2:19-20 (It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me)

1 Kings 2:1-4, 10-12 (I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, Solomon, and show yourself a man) 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (God chose what is weak in the world)

2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17 (Behold, I have sinned in numbering the people. But these sheep, what have they done?)

2 Samuel 18:9-10, 14, 24-25, 30-19:3 (O my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you) Isaiah 52:7-10 (All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God))

Malachi 3:1-4 (The Lord whom you seek will come to his Temple) Hebrews 2:14-18 (He had to be made like his brothers, so that he might become merciful)

Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 (I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly) 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (God chose what is weak in the world)

2 Samuel 12:1-7, 10-17 (I have sinned against the Lord) Phillippians 4:4-9 (Whatever is pure, think about these things)

2 Samuel 11:1-4, 5-10, 13-17 (You have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife)

2 Samuel 7:18-19, 24-29 (Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house)

2 Samuel 7:4-17 (I will raise up your offspring after you and I will establish his Kingdom) Wisdom 7:7-10, 15-16 (I loved wisdom more than health and beauty)

2 Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19 (David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting) 1 Peter 4:7-13 (as each has received a gift, use it to serve one another)

2 Timothy 1:1-8 (I am reminded of your sincere faith) Titus 1:1-5 (To Titus, my true child in a common faith)

Isaiah 9:1-4 (In Galilee of the nations the people have seen a great light) 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 (I appeal to you that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you)

2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 (How the might have fallen in the midst of the battle!) Ephesians 3:8-12 (To preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ)

1 Samuel 24:2-20 (I will not put out my hand against him, seeing he is the Lord's anointed) .

1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 (Saul my gather seeks to kill you) 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 (He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence)

1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 (David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone) 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (God chose what is weak in the world)

1 Samuel 16:1-13 (Samuel anointed David in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him.)

1 Samuel 15:16-23 (To obey is better than sacrifice. The Lord has rejected you from being king) Romans 6:19-23 ·(Now you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God)

Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 ·(I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.) 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 ·(Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.)

1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19, 10:1 (Here is the man of whom the Lord has spoken! Saul it is who shall restrain my people) Ephesians 6:10-13, 18 (Put on the whole armour of God)

1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22 (You will cry out because of your king, but the Lord will not answer you)

1 Samuel 4:1-11 (Israel was defeated and the ark of God was captured)

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 (Speak, Lord, for your servant hears)

1 Samuel 1:9-20 (The Lord remembered Hannah and she gave birth to Samuel) 1 John 2:18-25 (Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also)

1 Samuel 1:1-8 (Her rival used to provoke Hannah, because the Lord had closed her womb) 1 Kings 19:4-9, 11-15 (Stand on the mount before the Lord)

Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 (Behold my servant, in whom my soul delights) Acts 10:34-38 (God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit)

1 John 4:19-5:4 (Whoever loves God must also love his brother.)

1 John 4:11-18 (If we love one another, God abides in us)

1 John 4:7-10 (God is love)

1 John 3:22-4:6 (Test the spirits to see whether they are from God) 2 Corinthians 5:14-20 (He gave us the ministry of reconciliation)

Isaiah 60:1-6, (The glory of the Lord has risen upon you) Ephesians 3:2-3, 5-6 (It has now been revealed that the Gentiles are fellow hirs of the promise)

1 John 3:11-21 (We have passed out of death into life, becausewe love the brothers and sisters)