Daily Readings - 06/06/2026

^70:1 Oh come and rescue me, God, Yahweh come quickly and help me!

^70:2 Shame and dishonour on those who are out to kill me! Down with them! Disgrace on those who enjoy my misfortune!

^70:3 May they be aghast with shame, those who say to me, ‘Aha! Aha!’

^70:4 But joy and gladness for all who seek you! To all who love your saving power give constant cause to say, ‘God is great!’

^70:5 To me, poor wretch, come quickly, God! My helper, my saviour, Yahweh, come without delay.!

^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’.

^147:1 Praise Yahweh – it is good to sing in honour of our God – sweet is his praise.

^147:2 Yahweh, Restorer of Jerusalem! He brought back Israel’s exiles,

^147:3 healing their broken hearts, and binding up their wounds.

^147:4 He decides the number of the stars and gives each of them a name;

^147:5 our Lord is great, all-powerful, of infinite understanding.

^147:6 Yahweh, who lifts up the humble, humbles the wicked to the ground.

^147:7 Sing to Yahweh in gratitude, play the lyre for our God:

^147:8 who covers the heavens with clouds, to provide the earth with rain, to produce fresh grass on the hillsides and the plants that are needed by man,

^147:9 who gives their food to the cattle and to the young ravens when they cry.

^147:10 The strength of the war horse means nothing to him, it is not infantry that interests him.

^147:11 Yahweh is interested only in those who fear him, in those who rely on his love.

^147:12 Praise Yahweh, Jerusalem, Zion, praise your God:

^147:13 for strengthening the bars of your gates, for blessing your citizens,

^147:14 for granting you peace on your frontiers, for feeding you on the finest wheat.

^147:15 He gives an order; his word flashes to earth:

^147:16 to spread snow like a blanket, to strew hoarfrost like ashes,

^147:17 to drop ice like breadcrumbs, and when the cold is unbearable,

^147:18 he sends his word to bring the thaw and warm wind to melt the snow.

^147:19 He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and rulings to Israel:

^147:20 he never does this for other nations, he never reveals his rulings to them.

^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.’