DAILY LITURGICAL READINGS
Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand
by: CBCPReading 1DN 7:2-14
In a vision I, Daniel, saw during the night,
the four winds of heaven stirred up the great sea,
from which emerged four immense beasts,
each different from the others.
The first...
God loved us, and sent His Son as expiation for our sins
by: CBCPReading 12 MC 6:18-31
Eleazar, one of the foremost scribes,
a man of advanced age and noble appearance,
was being forced to open his mouth to eat pork.
But preferring a glorious death to a life of...
Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead
by: CBCPReading 12 MC 7:1-2, 9-14
It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested
and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God’s law.
One...
If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples
by: CBCPReading 1ROM 11:29-36
Brothers and sisters:
The gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
Just as you once disobeyed God
but have now received mercy
because of their disobedience,
so they have now...
I will praise your name forever
by: CBCPReading 1WIS 11:22-12:2
Before the LORD the whole universe is as a grain from a balance
or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.
But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things;...
Blessed are the poor in spirit
by: CBCPReading 1ROM 4:20-25
Brothers and sisters:
Abraham did not doubt God’s promise in unbelief;
rather, he was empowered by faith and gave glory to God
and was fully convinced that what God had promised...
The Spirit of truth will testify to me
by: CBCPReading 1ROM 4:13, 16-18
Brothers and sisters:
It was not through the law
that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants
that he would inherit the world,
but through the righteousness that...
The Word of God is living and effective
by: CBCPReading 1ROM 1:16-25
Brothers and sisters:
I am not ashamed of the Gospel.
It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes:
for Jew first, and then Greek.
For in it is revealed the...
The word of the Lord remains forever
by: CBCPReading 1HAB 1:2-3; 2:2-4
How long, O LORD? I cry for help
but you do not listen!
I cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not intervene.
Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?...
The Son of Man came to serve and to give his life as a ransom to many
by: CBCPReading 1ZEC 8:1-8
This word of the LORD of hosts came:
Thus says the LORD of hosts:
I am intensely jealous for Zion,
stirred to jealous wrath for her.
Thus says the LORD:
I will return to Zion,
and...