Daily Scripture Reading for the
Liturgical Calendar Year
(beginning the 1st Sunday of Advent)

September 28, 2010

Text taken from the
Third Millennium Bible^® (TMB^®)
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The Lectionary According to the Christian Seasons

Job 3

1 After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day. 2 And Job spoke and said:

3 "Let the day perish wherein I was born,
and the night in which it was said, `There is a manchild conceived.'
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year,
let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary;
let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day,
10 because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 "Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees precede me,
or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept;
then would I have been at rest
14 with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built desolate places for themselves,
15 or with princes that had gold,
who filled their houses with silver;
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been,
as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19 The small and great are there,
and the servant is free from his master.

20 "Why is light given to him that is in misery,
and life unto the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death but it cometh not,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;
22 who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
and whom God hath hedged in?
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;
yet trouble came."

Psalm 88

1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before Thee.
2 Let my prayer come before Thee; incline Thine ear unto my cry.
3 For my soul is full of troubles,
and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit;
I am as a man that hath no strength,
5 cast among the dead like the slain that lie in the grave,
whom Thou rememberest no more, and who are cut off from Thy hand.
6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit,
in darkness, in the deeps.
7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me,
and Thou hast afflicted me with all Thy waves.

8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me;
Thou hast made me an abomination unto them.
I am shut up, and I cannot come forth;
9 mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction.
LORD, I have called daily upon Thee;
I have stretched out my hands unto Thee.
10 Wilt Thou show wonders to the dead?
Shall the dead arise and praise Thee?
11 Shall Thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?
Or Thy faithfulness in destruction?
12 Shall Thy wonders be known in the dark?
And Thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But unto Thee have I cried, O LORD,
and in the morning shall my prayer come before Thee.
14 LORD, why castest Thou off my soul?
Why hidest Thou Thy face from me?
15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up;
while I suffer Thy terrors I am distraught.
16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me;
Thy terrors have cut me off.
17 They came round about me daily like water;
they compassed me about together.
18 Lover and friend hast Thou put far from me,
and mine acquaintances into darkness.

Words of Worship - Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give His life as a ransom for many." 

Luke 9:51-56

51 And it came to pass, when the time had come that He should be received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem, 52 and He sent messengers before His face. And they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans to make ready for Him. 53 But they did not receive Him, because His face was set as though He would go to Jerusalem. 54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said,"Lord, wilt Thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elijah did?" 55 But He turned and rebuked them and said,

"Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. 56 For the Son of Man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them."

And they went to another village. 

Words of Wisdom - Ecclesiasticus 37:2

Is it not a grief unto death when a companion and friend is turned to an enemy?

Jesus Speaks Morals & Values - Mark 4:26-29

And He said, 

"So is the Kingdom of God as if a man should cast seed into the ground, 2nd should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself: first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come."