Daily Prayer

1 John 3:16-20 We know love by this, that Jesus laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let...

Joel 2:1213 God says: Come back to me with all your heart. Come back to your God who is tender and compassionate, and rich in faithful love. Prayer: God of great goodness, even if we turn our backs on you, you never stop loving us. Open our eyes to the beauty of your...

Matthew 5:1-12 When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain; and after he sat down, his disciples came to him. Then he began to speak, and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for...

Hebrews 12:12-17 12Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. 14Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one...

Psalm 81:1-16 1   Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob. 2   Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp. 3   Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day. 4   For it is a statute for Israel, an...

John 5:1-9 1After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3In these lay many invalids — blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5One man was...

John 4:43-54 43When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet's own country). 45When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done...

Jonah 3:1-5, 10 1The word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2“Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an...

John 4:27-42 27Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are you speaking with her?" 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the...

Luke 18:15-17   15 People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them, and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it.16 But Jesus called for them and said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to...