Daily Reading for Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Reading 1, Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13

¹ I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you therefore to lead a life worthy of the vocation to which you were called.

² With all humility and gentleness, and with patience, support each other in love.

³ Take every care to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the peace that binds you together.

⁴ There is one Body, one Spirit, just as one hope is the goal of your calling by God.

⁵ There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

⁶ and one God and Father of all, over all, through all and within all.

⁷ On each one of us God's favour has been bestowed in whatever way Christ allotted it.

¹¹ And to some, his 'gift' was that they should be apostles; to some prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, pastors and teachers;

¹² to knit God's holy people together for the work of service to build up the Body of Christ,

¹³ until we all reach unity in faith and knowledge of the Son of God and form the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness of Christ himself.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 19:2-3, 4-5

² day discourses of it to day, night to night hands on the knowledge.

³ No utterance at all, no speech, not a sound to be heard,

⁴ but from the entire earth the design stands out, this message reaches the whole world. High above, he pitched a tent for the sun,

⁵ who comes forth from his pavilion like a bridegroom, delights like a champion in the course to be run.