A Catholic guide for saints, prayer, and practical devotional reading.
Saint Bartholomew the Apostle. Ordinary Time. A clean reading layout for church, prayer, or preparation.
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Revelation 21:9b-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.
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Psalm 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18
The psalm is meant to be prayed, not rushed. If the wording feels older, focus on the main movement of the prayer: trust, praise, sorrow, gratitude, or hope.
10Who givest salvation to kings: who have rescued your servant David from the malicious sword:
11Deliver me, And rescue me out of the hand of strange children; whose mouth has said emptiness: and their right hand is the right hand of sin:
12Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:
13Their storehouses full, flowing out of this into that. Their sheep fruitful in young, abounding in their goings forth:
John 1:45-51
The Gospel is the center of the reading set. Pay close attention to what Jesus says, what Jesus does, and what response he is asking for.
45Philip findeth Nathanael, and says to him: We have found him of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.
46And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see.
47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him: and he says of him: Look an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.
48Nathanael says to him: Whence know you me? Jesus answered, and said to him: Before that Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.
49Nathanael answered him, and said: Teacher, you art the Son of God, you art the King of Israel.
50Jesus answered, and said to him: Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, you believest: greater things than these shall you see.
51And he says to him: Truly, truly I say to you, you shall see the heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man.
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