Daily Reading for Friday, June 7th, 2024

Daily Reading for Friday June 7, 2024

Reading 1, Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8-9
Responsorial Psalm, Isaiah 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
Gospel, John 19:31-37
Reading 2, Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19
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Gospel, John 19:31-37

³¹ It was the Day of Preparation, and to avoid the bodies' remaining on the cross during the Sabbath -- since that Sabbath was a day of special solemnity -- the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken away.

³² Consequently the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with him and then of the other.

³³ When they came to Jesus, they saw he was already dead, and so instead of breaking his legs

³⁴ one of the soldiers pierced his side with a lance; and immediately there came out blood and water.

³⁵ This is the evidence of one who saw it -- true evidence, and he knows that what he says is true -- and he gives it so that you may believe as well.

³⁶ Because all this happened to fulfil the words of scripture: Not one bone of his will be broken;

³⁷ and again, in another place scripture says: They will look to the one whom they have pierced.

Reading 2, Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19

⁸ I, who am less than the least of all God's holy people, have been entrusted with this special grace, of proclaiming to the gentiles the unfathomable treasure of Christ

⁹ and of throwing light on the inner workings of the mystery kept hidden through all the ages in God, the Creator of everything.

¹⁰ The purpose of this was, that now, through the Church, the principalities and ruling forces should learn how many-sided God's wisdom is,

¹¹ according to the plan which he had formed from all eternity in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹² In him we are bold enough to approach God in complete confidence, through our faith in him;

¹⁴ This, then, is what I pray, kneeling before the Father,

¹⁵ from whom every fatherhood, in heaven or on earth, takes its name.

¹⁶ In the abundance of his glory may he, through his Spirit, enable you to grow firm in power with regard to your inner self,

¹⁷ so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love,

¹⁸ with all God's holy people you will have the strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth;

¹⁹ so that, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond knowledge, you may be filled with the utter fullness of God.

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