Daily Readings
April 13, 2023
*Two different lectionary systems are provided above: the two-year Daily Lectionary (cycles 1 and 2) and the three-year Revised Common Lectionary (cycles A, B, and C).
Morning
Salmos 47; 147:12-20
First Reading
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Second Reading
Acts 3:11-26
Gospel Reading
John 15:12-27
Evening
Salmos 68; 113
Morning Reading 1
Salmos 47
(1) Del maestro de coro. Salmo de los hijos de Coré.
1 (2) ¡Aplaudan, pueblos todos!
¡Aclamen a Dios con gritos de alegría!
2 (3) Porque el Señor, el Altísimo, es terrible;
es el gran Rey de toda la tierra.
3 (4) Destrozó pueblos y naciones
y los sometió a nuestro yugo.
4 (5) Nos ha escogido nuestra herencia,
que es orgullo de Jacob, a quien amó.
5 (6) ¡Dios el Señor ha subido a su trono
entre gritos de alegría y toques de trompeta!
6 (7) ¡Canten, canten himnos a Dios!
¡Canten, canten himnos a nuestro Rey!
7 (8) ¡Canten un poema a Dios,
porque él es el Rey de toda la tierra!
8 (9) ¡Dios es el Rey de las naciones!
¡Dios está sentado en su santo trono!
9 (10a) Los hombres importantes de las naciones
se unen al pueblo del Dios de Abraham,
10 (10b) pues de Dios son los poderes del mundo.
¡Él está por encima de todo!
Morning Reading 2
Salmos 147:12-20
12 Jerusalén, alaba al Señor;
Sión, alaba a tu Dios.
13 Pues él reforzó los cerrojos de tus puertas
y bendijo a tus hijos dentro de la ciudad.
14 Él trae la paz a tu territorio
y te satisface con lo mejor del trigo.
15 Él envía su palabra a la tierra,
y su palabra corre a toda prisa.
16 Él produce la nieve como si fuera lana,
y esparce la escarcha como si fuera polvo.
17 Él envía el hielo en forma de granizo;
con el frío que envía, el agua se congela.
18 Pero envía su palabra, y la derrite;
hace soplar el viento, y el agua corre.
19 Él dio a conocer a Jacob, a Israel,
su palabra, sus leyes y decretos.
20 No hizo lo mismo con las otras naciones,
las cuales nunca conocieron sus decretos.
¡Aleluya!
First Reading
Ezekiel 37:1-14
1The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2He led me all round them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?” I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” 4Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.”
7So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.” 10I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude.
11Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’ 12Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act, says the LORD.”
Second Reading
Acts 3:11-26
11While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s Portico, utterly astonished. 12When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 13The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. 14But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 15and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 16And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.
17“And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 19Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out, 20so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah appointed for you, that is, Jesus, 21who must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets. 22Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you from your own people a prophet like me. You must listen to whatever he tells you. 23And it will be that everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly rooted out from the people.’ 24And all the prophets, as many as have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, also predicted these days. 25You are the descendants of the prophets and of the covenant that God gave to your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ 26When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
Gospel Reading
John 15:12-27
12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. 16You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. 17I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another.
18“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. 19If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world — therefore the world hates you. 20Remember the word that I said to you, ‘Servants are not greater than their master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23Whoever hates me hates my Father also. 24If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father. 25It was to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’”
26“When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. 27You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning.”
Evening Reading 1
Salmos 68
(1) Del maestro de coro. Salmo y cántico de David.
1 (2) Cuando Dios entra en acción,
sus enemigos se dispersan;
los que le odian huyen de su presencia;
2 (3) desaparecen como el humo en el aire,
se derriten como la cera en el fuego;
¡ante Dios están perdidos los malvados!
3 (4) Pero los buenos se alegran;
ante Dios se llenan de gozo,
¡saltan de alegría!
4 (5) Canten ustedes a Dios,
canten himnos a su nombre;
alaben al que cabalga sobre las nubes.
¡Alégrense en el Señor!
¡Alégrense en su presencia!
5 (6) Dios, que habita en su santo templo,
es padre de los huérfanos
y defensor de las viudas;
6 (7) Dios da a los solitarios un hogar donde vivir,
libera a los prisioneros y les da prosperidad;
pero los rebeldes vivirán en tierra estéril.
7 (8) Oh Dios, cuando saliste al frente de tu pueblo
marchando a través del desierto,
8 (9) la tierra tembló,
la lluvia cayó del cielo,
el Sinaí tembló delante de Dios,
delante del Dios de Israel.
9 (10) Oh Dios, tú hiciste llover en abundancia;
tu pueblo estaba agotado, y tú le diste fuerza.
10 (11) Tu pueblo se estableció allí
y tú, oh Dios, por tu bondad,
le diste al pobre lo necesario.
11 (12) El Señor dio un mensaje;
muchas mujeres lo anunciaban:
12 (13) «¡Están huyendo los reyes y sus ejércitos!»
En casa, las mujeres se repartían
lo que se le había quitado al enemigo,
13 (14) pero ustedes se quedaron entre los rediles.
¡Alas de paloma cubiertas de plata!
¡Sus plumas cubiertas de oro fino!
14 (15) Cuando el Todopoderoso hizo huir a los reyes,
nevaba sobre el monte Salmón.
15 (16) ¡Qué altos son los montes de Basán,
y qué elevadas sus cumbres!
16 (17) Ustedes, que son montes tan altos,
¿por qué miran con envidia
el monte donde Dios quiso residir?
¡El Señor vivirá allí para siempre!
17 (18) Dios cuenta por millones sus carros de combate;
del Sinaí vino en ellos a su templo.
18 (19) Oh Dios, subiste a lo alto llevando cautivos;
recibiste tributo entre los hombres
y hasta los rebeldes se rindieron a ti, Señor.
19 (20) ¡Bendito sea el Señor, nuestro Dios y Salvador,
que día tras día lleva nuestras cargas!
20 (21) Nuestro Dios es un Dios que salva
y que puede librarnos de la muerte.
21 (22) Dios partirá la cabeza de sus enemigos,
la cabeza de los que siguen pecando.
22 (23) El Señor ha dicho:
«Te haré volver de Basán;
te haré volver del mar profundo,
23 (24) para que bañes tus pies
en la sangre de tus enemigos
y tus perros se la beban.»
24 (25) Oh Dios, mi Dios y Rey,
en tu santuario se ven las procesiones
que celebran en tu honor.
25 (26) Los cantores van al frente
y los músicos detrás,
y en medio las jovencitas
van tocando panderetas.
26 (27) ¡Bendigan todos ustedes a Dios el Señor!
¡Bendígalo todo Israel reunido!
27 (28) Al frente de ellos va Benjamín, el menor,
con muchos jefes de Judá,
de Zabulón y de Neftalí.
28 (29) Dios mío, demuestra tu poder;
¡reafirma lo que has hecho por nosotros!
29 (30) Desde tu alto templo, en Jerusalén,
adonde los reyes te traen regalos,
30 (31) reprende a Egipto, a esa bestia de los juncos,
a esa manada de toros bravos y de becerros
que en su afán de riquezas humillan a los pueblos;
¡dispersa a la gente que ama la guerra!
31 (32) De Egipto vendrán embajadores;
Etiopía levantará sus manos a Dios.
32 (33) ¡Canten a Dios, reinos de la tierra,
canten himnos al Señor,
33 (34) al que cabalga en los cielos,
en los cielos eternos!
Escuchen cómo resuena su voz,
su voz poderosa.
34 (35) Reconozcan el poder de Dios:
su majestad se extiende sobre Israel,
su poder alcanza el cielo azul.
35 (36) Maravilloso es Dios en su santuario;
el Dios de Israel da poder y fuerza a su pueblo.
¡Bendito sea Dios!
Evening Reading 2
Salmos 113
1 ¡Aleluya!
Siervos del Señor, ¡alaben su nombre!
2 ¡Bendito sea ahora y siempre
el nombre del Señor!
3 ¡Alabado sea el nombre del Señor
del oriente al occidente!
4 El Señor está por encima de las naciones;
¡su gloria está por encima del cielo!
5 Nadie es comparable al Señor nuestro Dios,
que reina allá en lo alto;
6 y que, sin embargo, se inclina
para mirar el cielo y la tierra.
7 El Señor levanta del suelo al pobre,
y saca del lugar más bajo al necesitado
8 para sentarlo entre gente importante,
entre la gente importante de su pueblo.
9 A la mujer que no tuvo hijos
le da la alegría de ser madre
y de tener su propio hogar.
¡Aleluya!
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