Daily Readings - 06/01/2026

^60:1 Arise, shine out, for your light has come, the glory of Yahweh is rising on you,

^60:2 though night still covers the earth and darkness the peoples.

^60:3 Above you Yahweh now rises and above you his glory appears. The nations come to your light and kings to your dawning brightness.

^60:4 Lift up your eyes and look round: all are assembling and coming towards you, your sons from far away and your daughters being tenderly carried.

^60:5 At this sight you will grow radiant, your heart throbbing and full; since the riches of the sea will flow to you, the wealth of the nations come to you;

^60:6 camels in throngs will cover you, and dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; everyone in Sheba will come, bringing gold and incense and singing the praise of Yahweh.

^72:1 God, give your own justice to the king, your own righteousness to the royal son,

^72:2 so that he may rule your people rightly and your poor with justice.

^72:3 Let the mountains and hills bring a message of peace for the people. Uprightly

^72:4 he will defend the poorest, he will save the children of those in need, and crush their oppressors.

^72:5 Like sun and moon he will endure, age after age,

^72:6 welcome as rain that falls on the pasture, and showers to thirsty soil.

^72:7 In his days virtue will flourish, a universal peace till the moon is no more;

^72:8 his empire shall stretch from sea to sea, from the river to the ends of the earth.

^72:9 The Beast[*a] will cower before him and his enemies grovel in the dust;

^72:10 the kings of Tarshish and of the islands will pay him tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba will offer gifts;

^72:11 all kings will do him homage, all nations become his servants.

^72:12 He will free the poor man who calls to him, and those who need help,

^72:13 he will have pity on the poor and feeble, and save the lives of those in need;

^72:14 he will redeem their lives from exploitation and outrage, their lives will be precious in his sight.

^72:15 (Long may he live, may gold from Sheba be given him!) Prayer will be offered for him constantly, blessings invoked on him all day long.

^72:16 Grain everywhere in the country, even on the mountain tops, abundant as Lebanon its harvest, luxuriant as common grass!

^72:17 Blessed be his name for ever, enduring as long as the sun! May every race in the world be blessed in him, and all the nations call him blessed!

^72:18 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who alone performs these marvels!

^72:19 Blessed for ever be his glorious name, may the whole world be filled with his glory! Amen. Amen!

^72:20 End of the prayers of David, son of Jesse.[*b]

^3:2 You have probably heard how I have been entrusted by God with the grace he meant for you,

^3:3 and that it was by a revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery, as I have just described it very shortly.

^3:5 This that has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets was unknown to any men in past generations;

^3:6 it means that pagans now share the same inheritance, that they are parts of the same body, and that the same promise has been made to them, in Jesus Christ, through the gospel.

^2:1 After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod,[*a] some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east.

^2:2 ‘Where is the infant king of the Jews?’ they asked. ‘We saw his star as it rose[*b] and have come to do him homage.’

^2:3 When King Herod heard this he was perturbed, and so was the whole of Jerusalem.

^2:4 He called together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people, and enquired of them where the Christ was to be born.

^2:5 ‘At Bethlehem in Judaea,’ they told him ‘for this is what the prophet wrote:

^2:6 And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, you are by no means least among the leaders of Judah, for out of you will come a leader who will shepherd my people Israel’.[*c]

^2:7 Then Herod summoned the wise men to see him privately. He asked them the exact date on which the star had appeared,

^2:8 and sent them on to Bethlehem. ‘Go and find out all about the child,’ he said ‘and when you have found him, let me know, so that I too may go and do him homage.’

^2:9 Having listened to what the king had to say, they set out. And there in front of them was the star they had seen rising; it went forward, and halted over the place where the child was.

^2:10 The sight of the star filled them with delight,

^2:11 and going into the house they saw the child with his mother Mary, and falling to their knees they did him homage. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.[*d]

^2:12 But they were warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.