2022-02-02 09:28 1 Maccabees 13:1-6. With a large army assembled against the land of Judah preparing to invade and destroy it, the people are trembling and fearful. Simon, the last living Maccabee brother, goes up to ...

2022-02-01 10:14 Zechariah 7:8-14. God tells Zechariah to tell the people to "Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to [each other], do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor; and l...

2022-01-31 09:37 Mark 7:24-30. Jesus goes to the region of Tyre and Sidon to a house where he hopes to be private for a while, but "he could not be hid." Immediately a Greek woman comes to him and asks him to drive th...

2022-01-30 10:58 Sirach 38:1-15. A tribute to physicians and trusting them when you are sick "for they too will pray to the Lord that he should grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preservin...

2022-01-29 10:26 2 Maccabees 15:28-34. After defeating Nicanor and his army in battle, the Jews are returning to Jerusalem with joy when they come upon Nicanor's body, dead from the battle. The "man who was ever i...

2022-01-28 08:45 2 Kings 18:36-37. A commander of the Assyrian army, the Rabshakeh, has just spoken to the people of Jerusalem saying that their God cannot save them from the might of the Assyrian army and they would ...

2022-01-27 10:12 Ezra 2:43-54. A listing of the temple servants as the people are returning to Jerusalem after the exile and rebuilding the temple. These men are not listed by their own names, but by the names of thei...

2022-01-26 08:52 Hebrews 6:18-19. (This is not a random reading today, it is a passage referred to by the Novena for Life reflection for today.) God, who does not lie, has set strong encouragement before us. He has ma...

2022-01-25 10:31 Joel 2:26-27. When Israel returns to the Lord she shall have plenty. She shall eat and be satisfied, she shall praise the name of the Lord who has dealt wondrously with her. God's people will then...

2022-01-23 11:59 Zechariah 13:7-9. At the end of an oracle about making Jerusalem a blazing fire to the rest of his people and all other nations, God says that he will cleanse the land of idols and false prophets. He ...