A Catholic guide for saints, prayer, and practical devotional reading.
Bruno. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.
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Jonah 1:1–2:1-2, 11
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
11And they said to him: What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us? for the sea flowed and swelled.
Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8
The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.
3And he said: I cried out of my suffering to the Lord, and he heard me: I cried out of the belly of hell, and you have heard my voice.
4And you have cast me forth into the deep in the heart of the sea, and a flood has compassed me: all your billows, and your waves have passed over me.
5And I said: I am cast away out of the sight of your eyes: but yet I shall see your holy temple again.
8When my soul was in distress within me, I remembered the Lord: that my prayer may come to you, to your holy temple.
Luke 10:25-37
The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.
25And look a certain lawyer stood up, tempting him, and saying, Master, what must I do to have eternal life?
26But he said to him: What is written in the law? how readest you?
27He answering, said: You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, and with your whole soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind: and your neighbour as yourself.
28And he said to him: You have answered right: this do, and you shall live.
29But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus: And who is my neighbour?
30And Jesus answering, said: A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, who also stripped him, and having wounded him went away, leaving him half dead.
31And it chanced, that a certain priest went down the same way: and seeing him, passed by.
32In like manner also a Levite, when he was near the place and saw him, passed by.
33But a certain Samaritan being on his journey, came near him; and seeing him, was moved with compassion.
34And going up to him, bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine: and setting him upon his own beast, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
35And the next day he took out two pence, and gave to the host, and said: Take care of him; and whatever you shall spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay you.
36Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbour to him that fell among the robbers?
37But he said: He that showed mercy to him. And Jesus said to him: Go, and do you in like manner.
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