First Reading
Wisdom 18:14-16; 19:6-9
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.
18:14For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
15Your Almighty word leaped down from heaven from your royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction,
16With a sharp sword carrying your unfeigned command, and he stood and satisfied all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven.
19:6For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the start, obeying your commands, that your children might be kept without hurt.
7For a cloud overshadowed their camps and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
8Through which all the nation passed which was protected with your hand, seeing your signs and wonders.
9For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who had rescued them.