LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17 You are God’s building. According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must be careful how he builds upon it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one that is there, namely, Jesus Christ. Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles God’s tem

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 15:1-10 Tax collectors and sinners drew near to Jesus to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So, He spoke this parable to them, “Which of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one lost until he finds it? And when he found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he returns home,

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Philippians 2:5-11 Have among yourselves the same attitude that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, and took upon himself the form of a servant, coming in human likeness, and found human in appearance. He humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and gave to him the name

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: John 6:37-40 (Jesus said to the crowds) “Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me, I will not reject because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. And this is the Father’s will who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day. For this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and belie

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Matthew 5:1-12a When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain and his disciples joined him. Then he taught them saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. B

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 14:1, 7-11 On a sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He put forth a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 14:1-6 On a sabbath, Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the chief Pharisees, and the people there observed him carefully. And behold, in front of him, there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and the Pharisees asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?” But they kept silent. So, he took the man and said, after he had healed him dismissed him. Then he said to them, “Who among you, if

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 6:10-20 Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For we wrestle not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the spiritual wickedness in high places. Therefore, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to resist on the evil day having done

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 6:12-16 Jesus went up on the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, Hohn, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor. MEDITATIO - Meditate o

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 13:18-21 Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Again, he said, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.” ME

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 13:10-17 Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath, and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over, completely unable to stand erect. When Jesus saw her, He called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and she stood up straight and at once glorified God. But the leader of the synagogue was upset by Jesus’ healing on the sabbath and said

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Matthew 22:36-40 When the Pharisees learned that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they came together and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested Jesus by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourse

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Luke 13:1-9 Some members of the crowd told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans suffered in this way because they were more sinful than all other Galileans? I tell you, no. But unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Of those eighteen killed when the tower of Siloam fell upon them, do you think that they were more sinful than a

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 4:1-6 I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, one Body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 3:14-21 I kneel before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is names, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with mighty by His Spirit in the inner self, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height, an

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 3:2-12 You have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for your benefit, how by revelation he made known to me the mystery, as I have written briefly earlier. When you read this, you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to human beings in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit, that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, memb

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 2:12-22 At that time, you were without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have become near by the Blood of Christ. For he is our peace, he made both one and broke down the dividing wall of enmity between us, through his flesh, abolishing the law of commandments contained in ordinance, th

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 2:1-10 You were dead in your transgressions and sins in which you walked according to the course of this world, following to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. All of us once existed among them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature the children or wrath, like the rest. But God who is rich in mercy, because of his gr

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Matthew 22:15-21 The Pharisees went off and plotted on how they could trap Jesus in his words. And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians saying, “Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in truth, that you care not for any man’s opinion nor do you consider another person’s status. Tell us, then, your opinion. Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” Knowing their intent to trick him, he said

LECTIO - Read Scripture Text: Ephesians 1:15-23 After hearing of your faith in the Lord Jesus and of your love for all the holy ones, I do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your understanding be enlightened so that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of g