First Reading
1 Peter 1:18-25
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.
18Knowing that you were not rescued with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the teaching of your fathers:
19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled,
20Foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but shown in the last times for you,
21Who through him are faithful in God, who raised him up from the dead, and has given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.
22Purifying your souls in the obedience of charity, with a brotherly love, from a sincere heart love one another earnestly:
23Being born again not of corruptible offspring, but incorruptible, by the word of God who liveth and remaineth forever.
24For all flesh is as grass; and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered, and the flower thereof is fallen away.
25But the word of the Lord lasts forever. And this is the word which by the gospel has been preached to you.