Daily Readings

Beloved:
Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk
so that through it you may grow into salvation,
for you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings
but chosen and precious in the sight of God,
and, like living stones,
let yourselves be built into a spiritual house
to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, 
a holy nation, a people of his own,
so that you may announce the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Once you were no people
but now you are God’s people;
you had not received mercy
but now you have received mercy.
Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners
to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.
Maintain good conduct among the Gentiles,
so that if they speak of you as evildoers,
they may observe your good works
and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. Serve the Lord with rejoicing. Enter into his sight in exultation
Know that the Lord himself is God. He made us, and we ourselves did not. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture
Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns, and acknowledge him. Praise his name
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy is in eternity, and his truth is from generation to generation

And they went to Jericho. And as he was setting out from Jericho with his disciples and a very numerous multitude, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind man, sat begging beside the way
And when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and to say, “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me.
And many admonished him to be quiet. But he cried out all the more, “Son of David, take pity on me.
And Jesus, standing still, instructed him to be called. And they called the blind man, saying to him: “Be at peace. Arise. He is calling you.
And casting aside his garment, he leapt up and went to him
And in response, Jesus said to him, “What do you want, that I should do for you?” And the blind man said to him, “Master, that I may see.
Then Jesus said to him, “Go, your faith has made you whole.” And immediately he saw, and he followed him on the way