Daily Readings - 10/05/2026

^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.

^8:14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them,

^8:15 and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit,

^8:16 for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus.

^8:17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

^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!

^14:15 If you love me you will keep my commandments.

^14:16 I shall ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate[*a] to be with you for ever,

^14:17 that Spirit of truth whom the world can never receive since it neither sees nor knows him; but you know him, because he is with you, he is in you.

^14:18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come back to you.

^14:19 In a short time the world will no longer see me; but you will see me, because I live and you will live.

^14:20 On that day you will understand that I am in my Father and you in me and I in you.

^14:21 Anybody who receives my commandments and keeps them will be one who loves me; and anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I shall love him and show myself to him.’