Daily Readings - 24/05/2026

^2:1 When Pentecost day came round, they had all met in one room,

^2:2 when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting;

^2:3 and something appeared to them that seemed like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them.

^2:4 They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech.

^2:5 Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from every nation under heaven,

^2:6 and at this sound they all assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men speaking his own language.

^2:7 They were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely’ they said ‘all these men speaking are Galileans?

^2:8 How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language?

^2:9 Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Judaea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

^2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyrene; as well as visitors from Rome-

^2:11 Jews and proselytes[*a] alike-Cretans and Arabs; we hear them preaching in our own language about the marvels of God.’

^103:1 Bless Yahweh, my soul, bless his holy name, all that is in me!

^103:2 Bless Yahweh, my soul, and remember all his kindnesses:

^103:3 in forgiving all your offences, in curing all your diseases,

^103:4 in redeeming your life from the Pit, in crowning you with love and tenderness,

^103:5 in filling your years with prosperity, in renewing your youth like an eagle’s[*a]

^103:6 Yahweh, who does what is right, is always on the side of the oppressed;

^103:7 he revealed his intentions to Moses, his prowess to the sons of Israel.

^103:8 Yahweh is tender and compassionate, slow to anger, most loving;

^103:9 his indignation does not last for ever, his resentment exists a short time only;

^103:10 he never treats us, never punishes us, as our guilt and our sins deserve.

^103:11 No less than the height of heaven over earth is the greatness of his love for those who fear him;

^103:12 he takes our sins farther away than the east is from the west.

^103:13 As tenderly as a father treats his children, so Yahweh treats those who fear him;

^103:14 he knows what we are made of, he remembers we are dust.

^103:15 Man lasts no longer than grass, no longer than a wild flower he lives,

^103:16 one gust of wind, and he is gone, never to be seen there again;

^103:17 yet Yahweh’s love for those who fear him lasts from all eternity and for ever, like his goodness to their children’s children,

^103:18 as long as they keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.

^103:19 Yahweh has fixed his throne in the heavens, his empire is over all.

^103:20 Bless Yahweh, all his angels, heroes mighty to enforce his word, attentive to his word of command.

^103:21 Bless Yahweh, all his armies, servants to enforce his will.

^103:22 Bless Yahweh, all his creatures in every part of his empire! Bless Yahweh, my soul.

^12:3 It is for that reason that I want you to understand that on the one hand no one can be speaking under the influence of the Holy Spirit and say, ‘Curse Jesus’, and on the other hand, no one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ unless he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

^12:4 There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit;

^12:5 there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord;

^12:6 working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them.

^12:7 The particular way in which the Spirit is given to each person is for a good purpose.

^12:12 Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ.

^12:13 In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink.

^20:19 In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’,

^20:20 and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord,

^20:21 and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. ‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’

^20:22 After saying this he breathed on them and said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.

^20:23 For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for those whose sins you retain, they are retained.’