Daily Readings - 22/07/2026

^63:1 God, you are my God, I am seeking you, my soul is thirsting for you, my flesh is longing for you, a land parched, weary and waterless;

^63:2 I long to gaze on you in the Sanctuary, and to see your power and glory.

^63:3 Your love is better than life itself, my lips will recite your praise;

^63:4 all my life I will bless you, in your name lift up my hands;

^63:5 my soul will feast most richly, on my lips a song of joy and, in my mouth, praise.

^63:6 On my bed I think of you, I meditate on you all night long,

^63:7 for you have always helped me. I sing for joy in the shadow of your wings;

^63:8 my soul clings close to you, your right hand supports me.

^63:9 But may those now hounding me to death go down to the earth below,

^63:10 consigned to the edge of the sword, and left as food for jackals.

^63:11 Then will the king rejoice in God, and all who swear by him be able to boast once these lying mouths are silenced.

^20:1 It was very early on the first day of the week and still dark, when Mary of Magdala came to the tomb. She saw that the stone had been moved away from the tomb

^20:2 and came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved. ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb’ she said ‘and we don’t know where they have put him.’

^20:11 Meanwhile Mary stayed outside near the tomb, weeping. Then, still weeping, she stooped to look inside,

^20:12 and saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head, the other at the feet.

^20:13 They said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ ‘They have taken my Lord away’ she replied ‘and I don’t know where they have put him.’

^20:14 As she said this she turned round and saw Jesus standing there, though she did not recognise him.

^20:15 Jesus said, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said, ‘Sir, if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and remove him’.

^20:16 Jesus said, ‘Mary!’ She knew him then and said to him in Hebrew, ‘Rabbuni!’ – which means Master.

^20:17 Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go and find the brothers, and tell them: I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’

^20:18 So Mary of Magdala went and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord and that he had said these things to her.