Daily Reading for Wednesday, August 30th, 2023

Reading 1, First Thessalonians 2:9-13

⁹ You remember, brothers, with what unsparing energy we used to work, slaving night and day so as not to be a burden on any one of you while we were proclaiming the gospel of God to you.

¹⁰ You are witnesses, and so is God, that our treatment of you, since you believed, has been impeccably fair and upright.

¹¹ As you know, we treated every one of you as a father treats his children,

¹² urging you, encouraging you and appealing to you to live a life worthy of God, who calls you into his kingdom and his glory.

¹³ Another reason why we continually thank God for you is that as soon as you heard the word that we brought you as God's message, you welcomed it for what it really is, not the word of any human being, but God's word, a power that is working among you believers.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 139:7-8, 9-10, 11-12

⁷ Where shall I go to escape your spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence?

⁸ If I scale the heavens you are there, if I lie flat in Sheol, there you are.

⁹ If I speed away on the wings of the dawn, if I dwell beyond the ocean,

¹⁰ even there your hand will be guiding me, your right hand holding me fast.

¹¹ I will say, 'Let the darkness cover me, and the night wrap itself around me,'

¹² even darkness to you is not dark, and night is as clear as the day.