First Reading
1 Peter 5:5b-14
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.
5:5In like manner, you young men, be subject to the leaders. And do you all insinuate humility one to another, for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he gives grace.
6Be you humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in the time of visitation:
7Casting all your care upon him, for he has care of you.
8Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goes about seeking whom he may devour.
9Whom resist you, strong in faith: knowing that the same suffering befalls your brothers and sisters who are in the world.
10But the God of all grace, who has called us into his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little, will himself perfect you, and confirm you, and establish you.
11To him be glory and empire forever and ever. Amen.
12By Sylvanus, a faithful brother to you, as I think, I have written briefly: beseeching and testifying that this is the true grace of God, in which you stand.
13The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so does my son Mark.
14Salute one another with a holy kiss. Grace be to all you, who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.