Daily Readings - 23/01/2026

^57:1 Take pity on me, God, take pity on me, in you my soul takes shelter; I take shelter in the shadow of your wings until the destroying storm is over.

^57:2 I call on God the Most High, on God who has done everything for me:

^57:3 to send from heaven and save me, to check the people harrying me, (pause) may God send his faithfulness and love.

^57:4 I lie surrounded by lions greedy for human prey, their teeth are spears and arrows, their tongue a sharp sword.

^57:5 Rise high above the heavens, God, let your glory be over the earth!

^57:6 They laid a net where I was walking when I was bowed with care; they dug a pitfall for me but fell into it themselves! (Pause)

^57:7 My heart is ready, God, my heart is ready; I mean to sing and play for you,

^57:8 awake, my muse, awake, lyre and harp, I mean to wake the Dawn!

^57:9 Lord, I mean to thank you among the peoples; to play music to you among the nations;

^57:10 your love is high as heaven, your faithfulness as the clouds.

^57:11 Rise high above the heavens, God, let your glory be over the earth!

^3:13 He now went up into the hills and summoned those he wanted. So they came to him

^3:14 and he appointed twelve; they were to be his companions and to be sent out to preach,

^3:15 with power to cast out devils.

^3:16 And so he appointed the Twelve: Simon to whom he gave the name Peter,

^3:17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanerges or ‘Sons of Thunder’;

^3:18 then Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot

^3:19 and Judas Iscariot, the man who was to betray him.