Today's Bible story *

March 9, 2025

Have a good day!

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First Sunday of Lent

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Gospel : Luke 4:1-13

1
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

2
for forty days, being tempted by the devil. He ate nothing in those days. Afterward, when they were completed, he was hungry.

3
The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

4
Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.' "

5
The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

6
The devil said to him, "I will give you all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whomever I want.

7
If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours."

8
Jesus answered him, "Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.' "

9
He led him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down from here,

10
for it is written,
'He will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you;'

11
and,
'On their hands they will bear you up,
lest perhaps you dash your foot against a stone.' "

12
Jesus answering, said to him, "It has been said, 'You shall not tempt the Lord your God.' "

13
When the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until another time.

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Deuteronomy 26:4-10

4
The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the LORD your God's altar.

5
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, "My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

6
The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

7
Then we cried to the LORD, the God of our fathers. The LORD heard our voice, and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

8
The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand, with an outstretched arm, with great terror, with signs, and with wonders;

9
and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

10
Now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, the LORD, have given me." You shall set it down before the LORD your God, and worship before the LORD your God.

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Romans 10:8-13

8
But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith which we preach:

9
that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

10
For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.

11
For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

13
For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

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Today's Bible story *

March 8, 2025

Have a good day!

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Saturday after Ash Wednesday

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Gospel : Luke 5:27-32

27
After these things he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, "Follow me!"

28
He left everything, and rose up and followed him.

29
Levi made a great feast for him in his house. There was a great crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining with them.

30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"

31
Jesus answered them, "Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

32
I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

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Isaiah 58:9b-14

9b
　"If you take away from among you the yoke,
finger pointing,
and speaking wickedly;

10
and if you pour out your soul to the hungry,
and satisfy the afflicted soul,
then your light will rise in darkness,
and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

11
and the LORD will guide you continually,
satisfy your soul in dry places,
and make your bones strong.
You will be like a watered garden,
and like a spring of water
whose waters don't fail.

12
Those who will be of you will build the old waste places.
You will raise up the foundations of many generations.
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Paths with Dwellings.

13
"If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath,
from doing your pleasure on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy of the LORD honorable,
and honor it,
not doing your own ways,
nor finding your own pleasure,
nor speaking your own words,

14
then you will delight yourself in the LORD,
and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth,
and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;"
for the LORD's mouth has spoken it.

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Today's Bible story *

March 7, 2025

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Friday after Ash Wednesday

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Gospel : Matthew 9:14-15

14
Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"

15
Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

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Isaiah 58:1-9a

1
"Cry aloud! Don't spare!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Declare to my people their disobedience,
and to the house of Jacob their sins.

2
Yet they seek me daily,
and delight to know my ways.
As a nation that did righteousness,
and didn't forsake the ordinance of their God,
they ask of me righteous judgments.
They delight to draw near to God.

3
'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you don't see?
Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don't notice?'

"Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
and oppress all your laborers.

4
Behold, you fast for strife and contention,
and to strike with the fist of wickedness.
You don't fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

5
Is this the fast that I have chosen?
A day for a man to humble his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself?
Will you call this a fast,
and an acceptable day to the LORD?

6
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen:
to release the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every yoke?

7
Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry,
and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house?
When you see the naked,
that you cover him;
and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

8
Then your light will break out as the morning,
and your healing will appear quickly;
then your righteousness shall go before you,
and the LORD's glory will be your rear guard.

9a
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer.
You will cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I am.'

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Today's Bible story *

March 6, 2025

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Thursday after Ash Wednesday

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Gospel : Luke 9:22-25

22
saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

23
He said to all, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

24
For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake will save it.

25
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

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Deuteronomy 30:15-20

15
Behold, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and evil.

16
For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that the LORD your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.

17
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

18
I declare to you today that you will surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.

19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

20
to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days, that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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Today's Bible story *

March 5, 2025

Have a good day!

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Ash Wednesday

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Gospel : Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18

1
"Be careful that you don't do your charitable giving† before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don't sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

3
But when you do merciful deeds, don't let your left hand know what your right hand does,

4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

5
"When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

16
"Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
17
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

18
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

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Joel 2:12-18

12
"Yet even now," says the LORD, "turn to me with all your heart,
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning."

13
Tear your heart and not your garments,
and turn to the LORD, your God;
for he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness,
and relents from sending calamity.

14
Who knows? He may turn and relent,
and leave a blessing behind him,
even a meal offering and a drink offering to the LORD, your God.

15
Blow the trumpet in Zion!
Sanctify a fast.
Call a solemn assembly.

16
Gather the people.
Sanctify the assembly.
Assemble the elders.
Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts.
Let the bridegroom go out of his room,
and the bride out of her chamber.

17
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar,
and let them say, "Spare your people, LORD,
and don't give your heritage to reproach,
that the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
'Where is their God?' "

18
Then the LORD was jealous for his land,
and had pity on his people.

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2 Corinthians 5:20--6:2

5:20
We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

21
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

6:1
Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain.

2
For he says,
"At an acceptable time I listened to you.
In a day of salvation I helped you."
Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

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Today's Bible story *

March 4, 2025

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Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Mark 10:28-31

28 Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all and have followed you."

29 Jesus said, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the sake of the Good News,

30 but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time: houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life.

31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first."

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Sirach 35:1-12 +

1
To keep the law is to make many offerings;

2
whoever observes the commandments sacrifices a peace offering.

3
By works of charity one offers fine flour,

4
and one who gives alms presents a sacrifice of praise.

5
To refrain from evil pleases the Lord,
and to avoid injustice is atonement.

6
Do not appear before the Lord empty-handed,

7
for all that you offer is in fulfillment of the precepts.

8
The offering of the just enriches the altar:
a sweet odor before the Most High.

9
The sacrifice of the just is accepted,
never to be forgotten.

10
With a generous spirit pay homage to the Lord,
and do not spare your freewill gifts.

11
With each contribution show a cheerful countenance,
and pay your tithes in a spirit of joy.

12
Give to the Most High as he has given to you,
generously, according to your means.


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Today's Bible story *

March 3, 2025

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Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Mark 10:17-27

17 As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

18 Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God.

19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.' "

20 He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

21 Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

22 But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.

23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into God's Kingdom!"

24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God's Kingdom!

25 It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into God's Kingdom."

26 They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

27 Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

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Sirach 17:20-24 +

20-21
Their iniquities cannot be hidden from him;
all their sins are before the Lord.

22
Human goodness is like a signet ring with God,
and virtue he keeps like the apple of his eye.

23
Later he will rise up and repay them,
requiting each one as they deserve.

24
But to the penitent he provides a way back
and encourages those who are losing hope!


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Today's Bible story *

March 2, 2025

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Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Luke 6:39-45

39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?

40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

41 Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?

42 Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.

43 "For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit, nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.

44 For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.

45 The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

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Sirach 27:4-7

4
When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear;
so do people's faults when they speak.

5
The furnace tests the potter's vessels;
the test of a person is in conversation.

6
The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had;
so speech discloses the bent of a person's heart.

7
Praise no one before he speaks,
for it is then that people are tested.

+ Sirach
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1 Corinthians 15:54-58

54 But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

55 "Death, where is your sting?
Hades, where is your victory?"

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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Today's Bible story *

March 1, 2025

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Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

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Gospel : Mark 10:13-16

13 They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them.

14 But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for God's Kingdom belongs to such as these.

15 Most certainly I tell you, whoever will not receive God's Kingdom like a little child, he will in no way enter into it."

16 He took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

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Sirach 17:1-15 +

1
The Lord created human beings from the earth,
and makes them return to earth again.

2
A limited number of days he gave them,
but granted them authority over everything on earth.

3
He endowed them with strength like his own,
and made them in his image.

4-5
He put fear of them in all flesh,
and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.

6
Discernment, tongues, and eyes,
ears, and a mind for thinking he gave them.

7
With knowledge and understanding he filled them;
good and evil he showed them.

8
He put fear of him into their hearts
to show them the grandeur of his works,

9
That they might describe the wonders of his deeds

10
and praise his holy name.

11
He set before them knowledge,
and allotted to them the law of life.

12
An everlasting covenant he made with them,
and his commandments* he revealed to them.

13
His majestic glory their eyes beheld,
his glorious voice their ears heard.

14
He said to them, "Avoid all evil";
to each of them he gave precepts about their neighbor.

15
Their ways are ever known to him,
they cannot be hidden from his eyes.

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