Daily Readings

(1) Salmo y cántico para el sábado.
1 (2) Altísimo Señor,
¡qué bueno es darte gracias
y cantar himnos en tu honor!
2 (3) Anunciar por la mañana y por la noche
tu gran amor y fidelidad,
3 (4) al son de instrumentos de cuerda,
con música suave de arpa y de salterio.

4 (5) Oh Señor,
¡tú me has hecho feliz con tus acciones!
¡Tus obras me llenan de alegría!
5 (6) Oh Señor,
¡qué grandes son tus obras!,
¡qué profundos tus pensamientos!
6 (7) ¡Sólo los necios no pueden entenderlo!
7 (8) Si los malvados y malhechores
crecen como la hierba, y prosperan,
es sólo para ser destruidos para siempre.
8 (9) Pero tú, Señor, por siempre estás en lo alto.
9 (10) Una cosa es cierta, Señor:
que tus enemigos serán destruidos;
que todos los malhechores serán dispersados.

10 (11) Tú aumentas mis fuerzas
como las fuerzas de un toro,
y viertes perfume sobre mi cabeza.
11 (12) He de ver cómo caen mis enemigos;
¡he de oír las quejas de esos malvados!

12 (13) Los buenos florecen como las palmas
y crecen como los cedros del Líbano.
13 (14) Están plantados en el templo del Señor;
florecen en los atrios de nuestro Dios.
14 (15) Aun en su vejez, darán fruto;
siempre estarán fuertes y lozanos,
15 (16) y anunciarán que el Señor, mi protector,
es recto y no hay en él injusticia.

1 ¡Aleluya!

Canten al Señor un canto nuevo;
alábenlo en la comunidad de los fieles.
2 Alégrense los israelitas, el pueblo de Sión,
porque Dios es su Creador y Rey.
3 Alaben su nombre con danzas,
cántenle himnos al son de arpas y panderos.
4 Porque el Señor se complace en su pueblo;
da a los humildes el honor de la victoria.
5 Alégrense los fieles con el triunfo,
y aun dormidos canten de alegría.
6 Haya alabanzas a Dios en sus labios,
y en su mano una espada de dos filos
7 para vengarse de los paganos,
para castigar a las naciones,
8 para encadenar a los reyes y gente poderosa
con pesadas cadenas de hierro,
9 para cumplir en ellos la sentencia escrita.
¡Esto será una honra para todos sus fieles!

¡Aleluya!

¹⁹Then Nebuchadnezzar was so filled with rage against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face was distorted. He ordered the furnace heated up seven times more than was customary, ²⁰and ordered some of the strongest guards in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. ²¹So the men were bound, still wearing their tunics, their trousers, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the furnace of blazing fire. ²²Because the king’s command was urgent and the furnace was so overheated, the raging flames killed the men who lifted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. ²³But the three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down, bound, into the furnace of blazing fire.

²⁴Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up quickly. He said to his counselors, “Was it not three men that we threw bound into the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.” ²⁵He replied, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the middle of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the fourth has the appearance of a god.” ²⁶Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and said, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out from the fire. ²⁷And the satraps, the prefects, the governors, and the king’s counselors gathered together and saw that the fire had not had any power over the bodies of those men; the hair of their heads was not singed, their tunics were not harmed, and not even the smell of fire came from them. ²⁸Nebuchadnezzar said, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him. They disobeyed the king’s command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God. ²⁹Therefore I make a decree: Any people, nation, or language that utters blasphemy against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego shall be torn limb from limb, and their houses laid in ruins; for there is no other god who is able to deliver in this way.” ³⁰Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.

¹¹For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. ¹²We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. ¹³Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. ¹⁵All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them. ¹⁶We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us — and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. ¹⁷How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

¹⁸Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

¹Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, ²where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. ³The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.” ⁴Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone.’”

⁵Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. ⁶And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. ⁷If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.” ⁸Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.’”

⁹Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, ¹⁰for it is written,
     ‘He will command his angels concerning you,
          to protect you,’
¹¹and
     ‘On their hands they will bear you up,
          so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’”
¹²Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’” ¹³When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time.

El Señor es mi pastor
(1a) Salmo de David.
23 (1b) El Señor es mi pastor;
nada me falta.
2 En verdes praderas me hace descansar,
a las aguas tranquilas me conduce,
3 me da nuevas fuerzas
y me lleva por caminos rectos,
haciendo honor a su nombre.

4 Aunque pase por el más oscuro de los valles,
no temeré peligro alguno,
porque tú, Señor, estás conmigo;
tu vara y tu bastón me inspiran confianza.

5 Me has preparado un banquete
ante los ojos de mis enemigos;
has vertido perfume en mi cabeza,
y has llenado mi copa a rebosar.
6 Tu bondad y tu amor me acompañan
a lo largo de mis días,
y en tu casa, oh Señor, por siempre viviré.

1 Cuando Israel, la casa de Jacob,
salió de Egipto, del país extraño,
2 Judá llegó a ser el santuario del Señor;
Israel llegó a ser su dominio.

3 Cuando el mar vio a Israel, huyó,
y el río Jordán se hizo atrás.
4 ¡Los cerros y las montañas
saltaron como carneros y corderitos!

5 ¿Qué te pasó, mar, que huiste?
¿Qué te pasó, Jordán, que te hiciste atrás?
6 ¿Qué les pasó, cerros y montañas,
que saltaron como carneros y corderitos?

7 ¡Tiembla tú, tierra,
delante del Señor, Dios de Jacob!
8 ¡Él convirtió las peñas en lagunas!
¡Él convirtió las rocas en manantiales!