First Reading
Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a
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.
8:2And you shall remember all the way through which the Lord your God has brought you for forty years through the desert, to afflict you and to prove you, and that the things that were in your heart might be made known, whether you would keep his commands or no.
3He troubled you with want, and gave you manna for your food, which neither you nor your fathers knew: to show that m not in bread alone does man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
14Your heart be lifted up, and you remember not the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage:
15And was your leader in the great and terrible wilderness, in which there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,
16And fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers knew not. And after he had troubled and proved you, at the last he had mercy on you,