Daily Readings - 22/04/2026

^8:1 Saul entirely approved of the killing. That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone[*a] except the apostles fled to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria.

^8:2 There were some devout people, however, who buried Stephen and made great mourning for him.

^8:3 Saul then worked for the total destruction of the Church; he went from house to house arresting both men and women and sending them to prison.

^8:4 Those who had escaped went from place to place preaching the Good News.

^8:5 One of them was Philip who went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them.

^8:6 The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves.

^8:7 There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured.

^8:8 As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.

^65:1 Praise is rightfully yours, God, in Zion. Vows to you must be fulfilled,

^65:2 for you answer prayer. All flesh must come to you

^65:3 with all its sins; though our faults overpower us, you blot them out.

^65:4 Happy the man you choose, whom you invite to live in your courts. Fill us with the good things of your house, of your holy Temple.

^65:5 Your righteousness repays us with marvels, God our saviour, hope of all the ends of the earth and the distant islands.

^65:6 Your strength holds the mountains up, such is the power that wraps you;

^65:7 you calm the clamour of the ocean, the clamour of its waves. The nations are in uproar,

^65:8 in panic those who live at the ends of the world, as your miracles bring shouts of joy to the portals of morning and evening.

^65:9 You visit the earth and water it, you load it with riches; God’s rivers brim with water to provide their grain.

^65:10 This is how you provide it: by drenching its furrows, by levelling its ridges, by softening it with showers, by blessing the first-fruits.

^65:11 You crown the year with your bounty, abundance flows wherever you pass;

^65:12 the desert pastures overflow, the hillsides are wrapped in joy,

^65:13 the meadows are dressed in flocks, the valleys are clothed in wheat, what shouts of joy, what singing!

^6:35 Jesus answered: ‘I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst.

^6:36 But, as I have told you, you can see me and still you do not believe.

^6:37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I shall not turn him away;

^6:38 because I have come from heaven, not to do my own will, but to do the will of the one who sent me.

^6:39 Now the will of him who sent me is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me, and that I should raise it up on the last day.

^6:40 Yes, it is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him up on the last day.’