Reading 1, Exodus 23:20-23 20 'Look, I am sending an angel to precede you, to guard you as you go and bring you to the place that I have prepared.21 Revere him and obey what he says. Do not defy him: he will not forgive any wrong-doing on your part, for my name is in...

Reading 1, Nehemiah 2:1-8 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, since I was in charge of the wine, I took the wine and offered it to the king. Now, he had never seen me looking depressed before.2 So the king said to me, 'Why are you...

Reading 1, Zechariah 8:20-23 20 'Yahweh Sabaoth says this, "In the future, peoples and citizens of many cities will come;21 and citizens of one city will go to the next and say: We must certainly go to entreat Yahweh's favour and seek out Yahweh Sabaoth; I am going...

Reading 1, Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 9 While I was watching, thrones were set in place and one most venerable took his seat. His robe was white as snow, the hair of his head as pure as wool. His throne was a blaze of flames, its wheels were a burning fire.10 A stream of...

Reading 1, Amos 6:1, 4-7 1 Disaster for those so comfortable in Zion and for those so confident on the hill of Samaria, the notables of this first of nations, those to whom the House of Israel has recourse!4 Lying on ivory beds and sprawling on their divans, they dine...

Reading 1, Zechariah 2:5-9, 14-15 5 Then, raising my eyes, I had a vision. There was a man with a measuring line in his hand.6 I asked him, 'Where are you going?' He said, 'To measure Jerusalem, to calculate her width and length.'7 And then, while the angel who was...

Reading 1, Haggai 1:15-2:9 15 This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,1 on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of Yahweh was addressed through the prophet Haggai, as follows,2 'You are to speak to...

Reading 1, Haggai 1:1-8 1 In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of Yahweh was addressed through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel governor of Judah and to Joshua son of Jehozadak the high priest as follows,2...

Reading 1, Ezra 9:5-9 5 At the evening sacrifice I came out of my stupor and, falling on my knees in my torn clothes and cloak, stretched out my hands to Yahweh my God,6 and said: 'My God, I am ashamed, I blush to lift my face to you, my God. For our iniquities have...

Reading 1, Galatians 2:19-20 19 In fact, through the Law I am dead to the Law so that I can be alive to God. I have been crucified with Christ20 and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me. The life that I am now living, subject to the...