Daily Reading for Tuesday, October 8th, 2024

Reading 1, Galatians 1:13-24

¹³ You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it;

¹⁴ and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish contemporaries in my limitless enthusiasm for the traditions of my ancestors.

¹⁵ But when God, who had set me apart from the time when I was in my mother's womb, called me through his grace and chose

¹⁶ to reveal his Son in me, so that I should preach him to the gentiles, I was in no hurry to confer with any human being,

¹⁷ or to go up to Jerusalem to see those who were already apostles before me. Instead, I went off to Arabia, and later I came back to Damascus.

¹⁸ Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to meet Cephas. I stayed fifteen days with him

¹⁹ but did not set eyes on any of the rest of the apostles, only James, the Lord's brother.

²⁰ I swear before God that what I have written is the truth.

²¹ After that I went to places in Syria and Cilicia;

²² and was still unknown by sight to the churches of Judaea which are in Christ,

²³ they simply kept hearing it said, 'The man once so eager to persecute us is now preaching the faith that he used to try to destroy,'

²⁴ and they gave glory to God for me.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15

¹ [For the choirmaster Of David Psalm] Yahweh, you examine me and know me,

² you know when I sit, when I rise, you understand my thoughts from afar.

³ You watch when I walk or lie down, you know every detail of my conduct.

¹³ You created my inmost self, knit me together in my mother's womb.

¹⁴ For so many marvels I thank you; a wonder am I, and all your works are wonders. You knew me through and through,

¹⁵ my being held no secrets from you, when I was being formed in secret, textured in the depths of the earth.