Articles:
2025-12-06
December 6, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 19 Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer...
2025-12-05
December 5, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 29:17-24 17 Is it not yet a very little while until Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be regarded as a forest? 18 In that day the deaf shall hear the...
2025-12-04
December 4, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 26:1-6 1 In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: “We have a strong city; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks. 2 Open the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps...
2025-12-03
December 3, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 25:6-10 6 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees...
2025-12-02
December 2, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 11:1-10 1 There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and...
2025-12-01
December 1, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 4:2-6 2 In that day the branch of the LORD shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. 3 And he who is left in...
2025-11-30
November 30, 2025
First Reading: Isaiah 2:1-5 1 The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. 2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the...
2025-11-29
November 29, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 7:15-27 15 “As for me, Daniel, my spirit within me was anxious and the visions of my head alarmed me. 16 I approached one of those who stood there and asked him the truth concerning all this....
2025-11-28
November 28, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 7:2-14 2 Daniel said, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up out of the sea, different from one...
2025-11-27
November 27, 2025
First Reading: Sirach 50:22-24 22 And now bless the God of all, who in every way does great things; who exalts our days from birth, and deals with us according to his mercy. 23 May he give us gladness of...
2025-11-26
November 26, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28 1 King Belshazʹzar made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand. 2 Belshazʹzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold...
2025-11-25
November 25, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 31 “You saw, O king, and behold, a great image. This image, mighty and of exceeding brightness, stood before you, and its appearance was frightening. 32 The head of this image was of fine gold, its...
2025-11-24
November 24, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiʹakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezʹzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiʹakim king of Judah into his hand,...
2025-11-23
November 23, 2025
First Reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-3 1 Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh. 2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led...
2025-11-22
November 22, 2025
First Reading: 1 Maccabees 6:1-13 1 King Antiʹochus was going through the upper provinces when he heard that Elymaʹis in Persia was a city famed for its wealth in silver and gold. 2 Its temple was very rich, containing golden shields,...
2025-11-21
November 21, 2025
First Reading: 1 Maccabees 4:36-37, 52-59 36 Then said Judas and his brothers, “Behold, our enemies are crushed; let us go up to cleanse the sanctuary and dedicate it.” 37 So all the army assembled and they went up to Mount...
2025-11-20
November 20, 2025
First Reading: 1 Maccabees 2:15-29 15 Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Moʹde-in to make them offer sacrifice. 16 Many from Israel came to them; and Mattathiʹas and his sons were assembled. 17 Then...
2025-11-19
November 19, 2025
First Reading: 2 Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 1 It happened also that seven brothers and their mother were arrested and were being compelled by the king, under torture with whips and cords, to partake of unlawful swine’s flesh. 20 The mother was...
2025-11-18
November 18, 2025
First Reading: Acts 28:11-16, 30-31 11 After three months we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, a ship of Alexandria, with the Twin Brothers as figurehead. 12 Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three...
2025-11-17
November 16, 2025
First Reading: Romans 15:14-21 14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. 15 But on some points I have written to you...
2025-11-16
November 16, 2025
First Reading: Malachi 3:19-20 1 “For behold, the day comes, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the LORD of hosts, so that it...
2025-11-15
November 15, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9 18:14 For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, 15 thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land...
2025-11-14
November 13, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 13:1-9 1 For all men who were ignorant of God were foolish by nature; and they were unable from the good things that are seen to know him who exists, nor did they recognize the craftsman while...
2025-11-13
November 13, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 7:22--8:1 7:22 for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me. For in her there is a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, 23 beneficent, humane,...
2025-11-12
November 12, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 6:1-11 1 Listen therefore, O kings, and understand; learn, O judges of the ends of the earth. 2 Give ear, you that rule over multitudes, and boast of many nations. 3 For your dominion was given you from the...
2025-11-11
November 11, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 2:23--3:9 2:23 for God created man for incorruption, and made him in the image of his own eternity, 24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his party experience it....
2025-11-10
November 10, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 1:1-7 1 Love righteousness, you rulers of the earth, think of the Lord with uprightness, and seek him with sincerity of heart; 2 because he is found by those who do not put him to the test, and...
2025-11-09
November 9, 2025
First Reading: Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 1 Then he brought me back to the door of the temple; and behold, water was issuing from below the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east); and the...
2025-11-08
November 8, 2025
First Reading: Romans 16:3-9, 16, 22-27 3 Greet Prisca and Aqʹuila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, 4 who risked their necks for my life, to whom not only I but also all the churches of the Gentiles give thanks; 5 greet...
2025-11-07
November 7, 2025
First Reading: Romans 15:14-21 14 I myself am satisfied about you, my brethren, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another. 15 But on some points I have written to you very...
2025-11-06
November 6, 2025
First Reading: Romans 14:7-12 7 None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. 8 If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live...
2025-11-05
November 5, 2025
First Reading: Romans 13:8-10 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You...
2025-11-04
November 4, 2025
First Reading: Romans 12:5-16 5 So we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to...
2025-11-03
November 2, 2025
First Reading: Romans 11:29-36 29 For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. 30 Just as you were once disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, 31 so they have now been disobedient in order...
2025-11-02
November 2, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 3:1-9 1 But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and no torment will ever touch them. 2 In the eyes of the foolish they seemed to have died, and their departure was thought...
2025-11-01
November 1, 2025
First Reading: Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 2 Then I saw another angel ascend from the rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud voice to the four angels who had been given...
2025-10-31
October 31, 2025
First Reading: Romans 9:1-5 1 I am speaking the truth in Christ, I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish...
2025-10-30
October 30, 2025
First Reading: Romans 8:31-39 31 What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, will he not also...
2025-10-29
October 29, 2025
First Reading: Romans 8:26-30 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. 27 And he who...
2025-10-28
October 28, 2025
First Reading: Ephesians 2:19-22 19 So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus...
2025-10-27
October 27, 2025
First Reading: Romans 8:12-17 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—13 for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to...
2025-10-26
October 26, 2025
First Reading: Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18 12 Do not offer him a bribe, for he will not accept it; and do not trust to an unrighteous sacrifice; for the Lord is the judge, and with him is no partiality. 13 He will...
2025-10-25
October 25, 2025
First Reading: Romans 8:1-11 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. 3...
2025-10-24
October 24, 2025
First Reading: Romans 7:18-25 18 For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the...
2025-10-23
October 23, 2025
First Reading: Romans 6:19-23 19 I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now yield your members to righteousness for...
2025-10-22
October 22, 2025
First Reading: Romans 6:12-18 12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. 13 Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have...
2025-10-21
October 21, 2025
First Reading: Romans 5:12, 15, 17-19, 20-21 12 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned— 15 But the free gift is not...
2025-10-20
October 20, 2025
First Reading: Romans 4:20-25 20 No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 22...
2025-10-19
October 19, 2025
First Reading: Exodus 17:8-13 8 Then came Amʹalek and fought with Israel at Rephʹidim. 9 And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out, fight with Amʹalek; tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with...
2025-10-18
October 18, 2025
First Reading: 2 Timothy 4:10-17 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessaloniʹca; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with...
2025-10-17
October 17, 2025
First Reading: Romans 4:1-8 1 What then shall we say about Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the scripture...
2025-10-16
October 16, 2025
First Reading: Romans 3:21-30 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from law, although the law and the prophets bear witness to it, 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe....
2025-10-15
October 16, 2025
First Reading: Romans 2:1-11 1 Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things. 2 We know...
2025-10-14
October 16, 2025
First Reading: Romans 1:16-25 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel: it is the power of God for salvation to every one who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the...
2025-10-13
October 16, 2025
First Reading: Romans 1:1-7 1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God 2 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures, 3 the gospel concerning his Son, who...
2025-10-11
October 16, 2025
First Reading: Joel 4:12-21 12 Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshʹaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the nations round about. 13 Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Go in,...
2025-10-12
October 12, 2025
First Reading: 2 Kings 5:14-17 14 So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and...
2025-10-10
October 10, 2025
First Reading: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 1:13 Gird on sackcloth and lament, O priests, wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because cereal offering and drink offering are withheld from...
2025-10-09
October 9, 2025
First Reading: Malachi 3:13-20 3:13 “Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet you say, ‘How have we spoken against thee?’ 14 You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our...
2025-10-08
October 8, 2025
First Reading: Jonah 4:1-11 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 And he prayed to the LORD and said, “I pray thee, LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? That...
2025-10-07
October 7, 2025
First Reading: Acts 1:12-14 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away; 13 and when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying,...
2025-10-06
October 6, 2025
First Reading: Jonah 1:1--2:2, 11 1:1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the son of Amitʹtai, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Ninʹeveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”...
2025-10-05
October 5, 2025
First Reading: Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4 1:2 O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and thou wilt not hear? Or cry to thee “Violence!” and thou wilt not save? 3 Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look...
2025-10-04
October 4, 2025
First Reading: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 5 Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel! 6 It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God. 7...
2025-10-03
October 3, 2025
First Reading: Baruch 1:15-22 15 “And you shall say: ‘Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face, as at this day, to us, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 16 and to our kings...
2025-10-02
October 2, 2025
First Reading: Exodus 23:20-23 20 “Behold, I send an angel before you, to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place which I have prepared. 21 Give heed to him and hearken to his voice, do not...
2025-10-01
October 1, 2025
First Reading: Nehemiah 2:1-8 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Ar-ta-xerxʹes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in...
2025-09-30
September 30, 2025
First Reading: Zechariah 8:20-23 20 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities; 21 the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor...
2025-09-29
September 29, 2025
First Reading: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 9 As I looked, thrones were placed and one that was ancient of days took his seat; his raiment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was...
2025-09-28
September 28, 2025
First Reading: Amos 6:1, 4-7 1 “Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samarʹia, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of...
2025-09-27
September 27, 2025
First Reading: Zechariah 2:5-9, 14-15 1 And I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand! 2 Then I said, “Where are you going?” And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to...
2025-09-26
September 26, 2025
First Reading: Haggai 2:1-9 1 in the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, 2 “Speak now to Zerubʹbabel the son of She-alʹti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua...
2025-09-25
September 25, 2025
First Reading: Haggai 1:1-8 1 In the second year of Dariʹus the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubʹbabel the son of She-alʹti-el,...
2025-09-24
September 24, 2025
First Reading: Ezra 9:5-9 5 And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garments and my mantle rent, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God, 6 saying: “O my...
2025-09-23
September 23, 2025
First Reading: Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20 7 let the work on this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site. 8 Moreover I make a...
2025-09-22
September 22, 2025
First Reading: Ezra 1:1-6 1 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia so...
2025-09-21
September 21, 2025
First Reading: Amos 8:4-7 4 Hear this, you who trample upon the needy, and bring the poor of the land to an end, 5 saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that...
2025-09-20
September 20, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 6:13-16 13 In the presence of God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 I charge you to keep the commandment unstained...
2025-09-19
September 19, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 6:2-12 2 Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brethren; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their service are believers and beloved....
2025-09-18
September 18, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 4:12-16 12 Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. 13 Till I come, attend to the public reading of scripture, to preaching,...
2025-09-17
September 17, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 14 I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that, 15 if I am delayed, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of...
2025-09-16
September 16, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 1 The saying is sure: If any one aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task. 2 Now a bishop must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, dignified, hospitable,...
2025-09-15
September 15, 2025
First Reading: Hebrews 5:7-9 7 In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear. 8...
2025-09-14
September 14, 2025
First Reading: Numbers 21:4-9 4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God...
2025-09-13
September 13, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 1:15-17 15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners; 16 but I received mercy for this reason, that...
2025-09-12
September 12, 2025
First Reading: 1 Timothy 1:1-2, 12-14 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, 2 To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God...
2025-09-11
September 11, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 3:12-17 12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, 13 forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven...
2025-09-10
September 10, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 3:1-11 1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things...
2025-09-09
September 9, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 2:6-15 6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him, 7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving. 8 See to it that...
2025-09-08
September 8, 2025
First Reading: Micah 5:1-4 2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephʹrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of...
2025-09-07
September 7, 2025
First Reading: Wisdom 9:13-18 13 "For what man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills? 14 For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail, 15 for a perishable body weighs...
2025-09-06
September 6, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 1:21-23 21 And you, who once were estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable...
2025-09-05
September 5, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 1:15-20 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or...
2025-09-04
September 4, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 1:9-14 9 And so, from the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10...
2025-09-03
September 3, 2025
First Reading: Colossians 1:1-8 1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, 2 To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ at Colosʹsae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. 3 We...
2025-09-02
September 2, 2025
First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11 1 But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like...
2025-09-01
September 1, 2025
First Reading: Genesis 2:4-9, 15 4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was...
2025-08-31
August 31, 2025
First Reading: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 17 My son, perform your tasks in meekness; then you will be loved by those whom God accepts. 18 The greater you are, the more you must humble yourself; so you will find favor in...
2025-08-29
August 29, 2025
First Reading: Jeremiah 1:17-19 17 "But you, gird up your loins; arise, and say to them everything that I command you. Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. 18 And I, behold, I make you this...
2025-08-28
August 28, 2025
First Reading: 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13 7 For this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith; 8 for now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord. 9 For what thanksgiving can...