Daily Readings - 06/06/2026

^71:1 In you, Yahweh, I take shelter; never let me be disgraced.

^71:2 In your righteousness rescue me, deliver me, turn your ear to me and save me!

^71:3 Be a sheltering rock for me, a walled fortress to save me! For you are my rock, my fortress.

^71:4 My God, rescue me from the hands of the wicked, from the clutches of rogue and tyrant!

^71:5 For you alone are my hope, Lord, Yahweh, I have trusted you since my youth,

^71:6 I have relied on you since I was born, you have been my portion from my mother’s womb, and the constant theme of my praise.

^71:7 To many I have seemed an enigma, but you are my firm refuge.

^71:8 My mouth is full of your praises, filled with your splendour all day long.

^71:9 Do not reject me now I am old, nor desert me now my strength is failing,

^71:10 for my enemies are uttering threats, spies hatching their conspiracy:

^71:11 ‘Hound him down now that God has deserted him, seize him, there is no one to rescue him!’

^71:12 God, do not stand aside, my God, come quickly and help me!

^71:13 Shame and ruin on those who attack me; may insult and disgrace cover those whose aim is to hurt me!

^71:14 I promise that, ever hopeful, I will praise you more and more,

^71:15 my lips shall proclaim your righteousness and power to save, all day long.

^71:16 I will come in the power of Yahweh to commemorate your righteousness, yours alone.

^71:17 God, you taught me when I was young, and I am still proclaiming your marvels.

^71:18 Now that I am old and grey, God, do not desert me; let me live to tell the rising generation about your strength and power,

^71:19 about your heavenly righteousness, God. You have done great things; who, God, is comparable to you?

^71:20 You have sent me misery and hardship, but you will give me life again, you will pull me up again from the depths of the earth,

^71:21 prolong my old age, and once more comfort me.

^71:22 I promise I will thank you on the lyre, my ever-faithful God, I will play the harp in your honour, Holy One of Israel.

^71:23 My lips shall sing for joy as I play to you, and this soul of mine which you have redeemed.

^71:24 And all day long, my tongue shall be talking of your righteousness. Shame and disgrace on those whose aim is to hurt me!

^12:38 In his teaching he said, ‘Beware of the scribes who like to walk about in long robes, to be greeted obsequiously in the market squares,

^12:39 to take the front seats in the synagogues and the places of honour at banquets;

^12:40 these are the men who swallow the property of widows, while making a show of lengthy prayers. The more severe will be the sentence they receive.’

^12:41 He sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the treasury, and many of the rich put in a great deal.

^12:42 A poor widow came and put in two small coins, the equivalent of a penny.

^12:43 Then he called his disciples and said to them, ‘I tell you solemnly, this poor widow has put more in than all who have contributed to the treasury;

^12:44 for they have all put in money they had over, but she from the little she had has put in everything she possessed, all she had to live on’.

^146:1 Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, my soul!

^146:2 I mean to praise Yahweh all my life, I mean to sing to my God as long as I live.

^146:3 Do not put your trust in men in power, or in any mortal man – he cannot save,

^146:4 he yields his breath and goes back to the earth he came from, and on that day all his schemes perish.

^146:5 Happy the man who has the God of Jacob to help him, whose hope is fixed on Yahweh his God,

^146:6 maker of heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that these hold! Yahweh, forever faithful,

^146:7 gives justice to those denied it, gives food to the hungry, gives liberty to prisoners.

^146:10 Yahweh reigns for ever, your God, Zion, from age to age.

^10:16 The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body of Christ.

^10:17 The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a share in this one loaf.

^6:51 I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.’

^6:52 Then the Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said.

^6:53 Jesus replied: I tell you most solemnly, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.

^6:54 Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day.

^6:55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.

^6:56 He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.

^6:57 As I, who am sent by the living Father, myself draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will draw life from me.

^6:58 This is the bread come down from heaven; not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’