Daily Reading for Thursday, June 13th, 2024

Reading 1, First Kings 18:41-46

⁴¹ Elijah said to Ahab, 'Go back now, eat and drink; for I hear the approaching sound of rain.'

⁴² While Ahab went back to eat and drink, Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel and bowed down to the ground, putting his face between his knees.

⁴³ 'Now go up', he told his servant, 'and look out to sea.' He went up and looked. 'There is nothing at all,' he said. Seven times Elijah told him to go back.

⁴⁴ The seventh time, the servant said, 'Now there is a cloud, small as a man's hand, rising from the sea.' Elijah said, 'Go and say to Ahab, "Harness the chariot and go down before the rain stops you." '

⁴⁵ And with that the sky grew dark with cloud and storm, and rain fell in torrents. Ahab mounted his chariot and made for Jezreel.

⁴⁶ But the hand of Yahweh had come on Elijah and, hitching up his clothes, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 65:10, 10-11, 12-13

¹⁰ you water its furrows abundantly, level its ridges, soften it with showers and bless its shoots.

¹¹ You crown the year with your generosity, richness seeps from your tracks,

¹² the pastures of the desert grow moist, the hillsides are wrapped in joy,

¹³ the meadows are covered with flocks, the valleys clothed with wheat; they shout and sing for joy.

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