Daily Bible Reading - November 21st, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - November 21st, 2021 | American Bible Society: Psalm 148: This psalm is a call for the universe to praise God. While some of Israel’s neighbors worshiped the sun, moon, and stars as gods, in this psalm, the heavenly bodies worship the God who created them. In addition, this psalm invites everyone and everything on earth to praise God as creator.

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Daily Bible Reading - November 14th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - November 14th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Psalm 105: This psalm outlines Israel’s history from the call of Abraham to the journey of the people to the Promised Land.

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Daily Bible Reading - November 7th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - November 7th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Psalm 46: Today’s psalm is a communal hymn that attests to God as a sure refuge in times of trouble. God is sovereign over turmoil in nature and tumult of war and will keep Jerusalem (the city of God) secure.

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Daily Bible Reading - October 31st, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - October 31st, 2021 | American Bible Society: Psalm 10: In the reading on October 2 (Psalm 9), the writer expressed thanks and praise for God’s help in defeating his enemies. In today’s reading, the writer asks for God’s help against the wicked. In some traditions, the two psalms are combined inasmuch as the gratitude expressed in Psalm 9 is juxtaposed with the dismay in Psalm 10. While Psalm 10 opens with a lament about the remoteness of God, it concludes with the writer expressing trust that God hears the prayers of those who are oppressed.

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Daily Bible Reading - October 24th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - October 24th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Micah 1:1-16: Today we begin reading the book of the prophet Micah. He was from a country town in Judah, the southern kingdom, and was convinced that Judah was about to face the same kind of national catastrophe that Amos had predicted for Israel, the northern kingdom. The book is a collection of oracles, and the first chapter begins with a message of doom. The prophet calls upon the people to listen to the LORD.

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Daily Bible Reading - October 17th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - October 17th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Amos 3:1-15: The people of Israel were chosen to have a special relationship with the LORD, and they were chosen for a purpose – to be living examples of the LORD’s justice and goodness. But many in Israel refused to live according to this purpose. Today’s reading includes a continuation of the judgments directed against Israel. Samaria, Israel’s capital city, is targeted for punishment. The northern kingdom of Israel was also known as Samaria.

Daily Bible Reading - October 10th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - October 10th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Isaiah 32:1-20: Today’s reading describes a time when those who govern will rule with integrity and justice, and God’s peace will reign.

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Daily Bible Reading - October 3rd, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - October 3rd, 2021 | American Bible Society: 1 Corinthians 11:17-34: The apostle Paul tells the Corinthians that they are dishonoring the Lord because of the way they practice the Lord’s Supper. He reminds them of Jesus’s words on the night Jesus was betrayed and exhorts them to undergo self-examination before partaking of the meal.

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Father Donald Senior, CP Oct. 3: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday, September 15, 2021 BECOMING ONE FLESH Gn 2:18-24; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Heb 2:9-11; Mk 10:2-16 On this Sunday, when a priest or deacon gets up to preach in almost any parish in our country (and elsewhere too), the congregation will include two groups of people: couples working hard to keep their marriage alive and intact, and others who are divorced and perhaps remarried. How does the preacher proclaim the Gospel message to both with fidelity and compassion? Mark’s Gospel portrays what most interpreters consider Jesus’ original teaching about marriage and divorce. His Pharisee opponents ask him a leading question: “Is it lawful for a husband to divorce his wife?” In Deuteronomy 24:1-4, the law of Moses permits divorce; the debate at the time of Jesus was about the sufficient cause for divorce (Matthew’s version of this passage reflects this point, adding to the Pharisees’ question the phrase, “for any cause?”). Jesus answers without compromise: Moses permitted divorce only “because of the hardness of your hearts.” Citing the same passage as our first reading from Genesis, Jesus declares that God’s original intent was no divorce: “What God has joined together, no human being must separate.” Jesus presses home his point: “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.” While the religious leaders of his time earnestly debated the question of divorce, Jesus reaches back to the original ideal of God’s creation. The text Jesus quotes is one of the Bible’s most foundational passages. Like the beautiful opening chapter of the Bible, this second account of creation in Genesis 2 affirms that God, the author of all life, created the world and, in particular, the human person out of love. Alone among the beauty of creation, the human, male and female, is created in God’s own image (Gn 1:26-27). The first reading for today from Genesis 2 picks up that astounding assertion. The human is like God because men and women are capable of choice, of intentionality, and, above all, of the quality of love that reflects God’s own indescribable and creative love. The human is also to share in God’s love for all creation. Today’s passage shows an expression of that unique human dignity and responsibility in the God-given authority to name the various creatures God has fashioned. It is in this affirmation of the capacity of the human to love as God loves and to share in God’s creative power, that the call appears for men and women to leave their parental home and to become “one flesh.” So deep and so powerful is the mutual love of husband and wife that they become “one flesh.” The passage Jesus cites from the Scriptures is not a commentary on divorce but a compelling vision of the human capacity for love and fidelity. Married love, as we heard a few Sundays ago in the reading from Ephesians, reflects Christ’s own love for his people. It would be hard to surpass the beauty of the Christian ideal of married love expressed in these biblical passages. This, of course, makes the pastoral challenge of divorce all the more difficult. Few couples who have experienced divorce would describe it as anything less than painful and sad. Most young couples yearn for a lifelong mutual love commitment. But the pressures on marriage are strong, especially in our culture where many of the traditional social and familial supports for marriage are often absent. The romantic ideal of the nuclear family can also be a psychological and spiritual burden for many couples. Pope Francis reminded us in his exhortation on marriage, “The Joy of Love,” that the church must remain faithful to Jesus’ teaching about the ideal of enduring and faithful love between husband and wife, for the sake of Christian life and for the good of society itself. But, as is the case with all of us, we are fallible and often fall short of our deepest ideals and longings. Thus, the church is called also in the spirit of Jesus to be compassionate, to stand by and support those whose marriages have failed yet who seek to live an authentic Christian life.

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Daily Bible Reading - September 26th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - September 26th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Ecclesiastes 5:1-20: The Philosopher shares his thoughts about making rash promises to God and about the uselessness of acquiring material riches. The reading concludes with a summation of what the Philosopher has learned about life.

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Daily Bible Reading - September 19th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - September 19th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Proverbs 3:1-35: Obeying the LORD’s teachings will show one the right way to live. True happiness is gained by having wisdom from the LORD.

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Daily Bible Reading - September 12th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - September 12th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Luke 17:1-10: After Jesus reproaches the Pharisees for their faithlessness and self-righteous behavior (see Luke 16), he addresses his disciples and teaches about sin, forgiveness, faith, and service.

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Daily Bible Reading - September 9th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - September 9th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Luke 14:15-35: Today’s reading opens with a parable about a great feast and Jesus’s teaching about the consequences of ignoring God’s invitation. The reading concludes with Jesus’s teaching about the meaning of true discipleship and allegiance to him.

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Daily Bible Reading - September 5th, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - September 5th, 2021 | American Bible Society: Luke 12:41-59: Today’s reading begins with Peter asking Jesus about his parable of the watchful servant (see Luke 12:35-40 from yesterday’s reading). By means of another parable, Jesus continues to teach about being faithful. When he speaks of division within households, he confronts his hearers with the challenge of what it means to follow him and embrace his teachings.

Daily Bible Reading - August 29th, 2020 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - August 29th, 2020 | American Bible Society: Zechariah 10:1-12: The people of Israel and Judah are described like lost sheep without a leader, but the LORD promises to have compassion on them, care for the people, and punish their enemies. (See also Matthew 9:36 that speaks of Jesus’s pity for the people “because they were worried and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.”)

Daily Bible Reading - August 22nd, 2021 | American Bible Society

Daily Bible Reading - August 22nd, 2021 | American Bible Society: Joshua 22:10-34: The tribes west of the Jordan River heard that the eastern tribes had built their own altar, and for this they were prepared to wage war. Phinehas (grandson of Aaron and son of Eleazar) is appointed to speak to the eastern tribes, stating that building another altar is in disobedience to the LORD.