October 18, 2026 Have a good day! ----- Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time ----- ☆ Gospel: Matthew 22:15-21 Dramatic Reading https://hanamori.info/bible/en/Matthew_22_15-21 Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him. And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position. Give us, then, your opinion of this: Is it right to give tax to Caesar, or not? But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong? Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? They say to him, Caesar's. Then he said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. ----- ☆ Isaiah 45:1, 4-6 Dramatic Reading https://hanamori.info/bible/en/Isaiah_45_1_4-6 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; Because of Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself, I have sent for you by name, giving you a name of honour, though you had no knowledge of me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me: So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other. ----- ☆ 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b Dramatic Reading https://hanamori.info/bible/en/1_Thessalonians_1_1-5b Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers; Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose; Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; ----- ◇ Daily Readings October 18, 2026 https://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/101826.cfm ◇ Abiding Radio Instrumental (BGM) https://www.abidingradio.org/listen/ -----