by RQue Royal Design | Nov 24, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 6:1-13 1 King Antiochus, meanwhile, was making his way through the Upper Provinces; he had heard that in Persia there was a city called Elymais, renowned for its riches, its silver and gold,2 and its very wealthy temple containing golden...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 23, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9 1 But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, and no torment can touch them.2 To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, their departure was regarded as disaster,3 their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace.4 If, as it...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 22, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29 15 The king’s commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices.16 Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart.17 The king’s commissioners then...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 21, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Nov 20, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Maccabees 6:18-31 18 Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, had his mouth forced open, to make him eat a piece of pork.19 But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 19, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 1:10-15, 41-43, 54-57, 62-63 10 From these there grew a wicked offshoot, Antiochus Epiphanes son of King Antiochus; once a hostage in Rome, he became king in the 107th year of the kingdom of the Greeks.11 It was then that there emerged from...
