First Reading
2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a
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.
4:8And there was a day when Eliseus passed by Sunam: now there was a great woman there, who detained him to eat bread; and as he passed often that way, he turned into her house to eat bread.
9And she said to her husband: I perceive that this is a holy man of God, who often passeth by us.
10Let us therefore make him a little chamber, and put a little bed in it for him, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick, that when he comes to us, he may abide there.
11Now there was a certain day when he came and turned in to the chamber, and rested there.
14And he said$1 What will she then that I do for her? And Giezi said: Do not ask, for she has no son, and her husband is old.
15Then he bid him call her: And when she was called, and stood before the door.
16He said to her: At this time, and this same hour, if life accompany, you shall have a son in your womb. But she answered: Do not, I beg you, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your servant.