Category Archives: Daily Devotionals

  Matthew 21:18-43 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Jesus Curses the Fig Tree 18 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come […]

  Philippians 4:4-9 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5 Let all men know your forbearance. The Lord is at hand. 6 Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which passes […]

  Hebrews 12:28-13:8 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe; 29 for our God is a consuming fire. Service Well-Pleasing to God 13 [a]Let brotherly love continue. 2 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, […]

  N.B “Today ends the forty day fast before Pascha that runs from the Monday after Cheesefare Sunday until the day before Lazarus Saturday. In origin this fast seems to be an imitation of the forty-day fast Jesus made after his baptism in the Jordan. In Egypt, it prepared the catechumens for the reception of […]

  Isaiah 65:8-16 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 8 Thus says the Lord: “As the wine is found in the cluster,     and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,     for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake,     and not destroy them all. 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,     and from […]

  Isaiah 58:1-11 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition False and True Worship 58 “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression,     to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily,     and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did […]

  Isaiah 49:6-10 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 6 he says: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant     to raise up the tribes of Jacob     and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations,     that my salvation may reach to the end of […]

  Isaiah 48:17-49:4 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 17 Thus says the Lord,     your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God,     who teaches you to profit,     who leads you in the way you should go. 18 O that you had hearkened to my commandments!     Then your peace would have been like a river,     and your […]

  Hebrews 9:11-14 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come,[a] then through the greater and more perfect tent[b] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking[c] not the blood of goats and calves but […]

  Hebrews 9:24-28 Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition 24 For Christ has entered, not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. 25 Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the Holy Place yearly […]