Catholic Reading of the Day

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.)

Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 (The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious) 2 Corinthians 13:11-14 · (The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit)

Jude 17, 20-25 ·(God is able to keep you from stumblingand to present you blameless before the presence of his glory.)

1 Peter 4:7-13 (Be good stewards of God’s varied grace.)1 Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 (Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!)

Genesis 22:9-18 · (The sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith.) Hebrews 10:4-10 ·(I have come to do your will, O God, as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.)

1 Thessalonians 2:2-8 ·(We were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves.)

1 Peter 1:10-16 ·(They prophesied about the grace that was to be yours. Therefore, being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace.) Philippians 4:4-9 · (Whatever is pure, think about these things.)

Genesis 3:9-15, 20 ·(I will put enmity between your offspring and the offspring of the woman.) Acts 1:12-14 ·(All with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer.)

Acts 2:1-11 · (They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak.) 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 (In one Spirit we were all baptised into one body.)

Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 ·(He lived in Rome proclaiming the kingdom of God.)

Acts 25:13-21 ·(Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.) Philippians 4:4-9 ·(Whatever is pure, think about these things.)

Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 ·(You must testify also in Rome.) Revelation 7:9-17 ·(These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation.)

Acts 20:28-38 · (I commend you to God, who is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance.) Acts 4:8-12 · (There is no other name by which we must be saved.)

Acts 20:17-27 ·(I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus.) Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13 ·(To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.)

Acts 19:1-8 ·(Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?) Revelation 3:14, 20-22 · (I will eat with him, and he with me.)

Acts 1:12-14 ·(All with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer.) 1 Peter 4:13-16 ·(If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed.)

Acts 19:1-8 (Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?) Revelation 3:14, 20-22 (I will eat with him, and he with me)

Acts 18:23-28 · (Apollos showed by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.)

Acts 18:9-18 · (I have many in this city who are my people.)

Acts 1:1-11 ·(As they were looking on, he was lifted up.) Ephesians 1:16-23 · (God seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places.)

Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 (What you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.) Isaiah 61:9-11 ·(I will greatly rejoice in the Lord.)

Acts 16:22-34 ·(Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.) Revelation 19:1, 5-9·(Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.)

Acts 16:11-15 (The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul)

Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 (They laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit) 1 Peter 3:15-18 (Being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit)

Acts 16:1-10 ·(Come over to Macedonia and help us.)