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Read the Bible

March 28, 2024

Morning Reading
Midday Reading
Evening Reading

Morning
Rising

Psalm 108:1-5

My heart is steadfast, O God;
  I will sing and make music with all my soul.
Awake, harp and lyre!
  I will awaken the dawn.
I will praise you, O Lord, among the nations;
  I will sing of you among the peoples.
For great is your love, higher than the heavens;
  your faithfulness reaches to the skies.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens,
  and let your glory be over all the earth.

Midday
Reconnecting

Midday Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek so much
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

Evening
Resting

Mark 1:1-3

The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
  “I will send my messenger ahead of you,
  who will prepare your way”-
“a voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
  make straight paths for him.’”

  And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. And this was his message: “After me comes the one more powerful than I, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

  At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
  At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness forty days, being tempted by Satan. He was with the wild animals, and angels attended him.

Evening
Resting

Colossians 1:13-14

For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.