First Reading
James 1:12-18
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.
12Blessed is the person who lasts temptation; for when he has been proved, he shall receive a crown of life, which God has promised to them that love him.
13Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.
14But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
15Then when concupiscence has conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
16Do not err, therefore, my dearest brothers and sisters.
17Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of alteration.
18For of his own will has he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creatures.