December 26, 2022

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, The world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. John 1:10, 11 NIV

Bible verses for today, Zechariah 1-3, Revelation 17, to finish the Bible in one year. (The Catholic Bible, the original one that includes all the books not included in Bibles used by other Christians.)

Also read the verses, if you like.

lZachariah 1

1 In the second year of Darius, in the eighth month, the word of Yahweh was addressed to the prophet Zechariah (son of Berechiah), son of Iddo, as follows,

2 ‘Yahweh was deeply angry with your ancestors.

3 So say this to them, “Yahweh Sabaoth says this: Return to me — Yahweh Sabaoth declares — and I will return to you, says Yahweh Sabaoth.

4 Do not be like your ancestors when the prophets in the past cried to them: Yahweh Sabaoth says this: Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds — they would not listen or pay attention to me — Yahweh declares.

5 Where are your ancestors now? And the prophets, do they live for ever?

6 But did not my words and statutes, with which I had charged my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors just the same?” ‘ So they repented and said, ‘Yahweh Sabaoth has treated us as he resolved to do, and as our ways and deeds deserved.’

7 On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month (the month of Shebat), in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh was addressed to the prophet Zechariah (son of Berechiah), son of Iddo, as follows,

8 ‘I had a vision during the night. There was a man riding a red horse standing among the deep-rooted myrtles; behind him were other horses-red, chestnut and white.

9 I said, “What are these, my lord?” And the angel who was talking to me said, “I will show you what they are.”

10 The man standing among the myrtles then replied, “Those are they whom Yahweh has sent to patrol the world.”

11 They reported to the angel of Yahweh as he stood among the myrtles, “We have been patrolling the world, and indeed the whole world is still and at peace.”

12 The angel of Yahweh then spoke and said, “Yahweh Sabaoth, how long will you wait before taking pity on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, on which you have inflicted your anger for the past seventy years?”

13 Yahweh then replied with kind and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.

14 The angel who was talking to me then said to me, “Make this proclamation: Yahweh Sabaoth says this: I am burning with jealousy for Jerusalem and Zion

15 but am deeply angry with the nations now at ease; before, I was only mildly angry, but they contributed to the disaster.

16 So now Yahweh says this: In compassion I have returned to Jerusalem; my Temple will be rebuilt there — Yahweh Sabaoth declares — and the measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.

17 Make this proclamation too: Yahweh Sabaoth says this: My cities are once more to be very prosperous. Yahweh will comfort Zion once again, and again make Jerusalem his choice.” ‘

Zachariah 2

1 Then, raising my eyes, I had a vision. It was this: There were four horns.

2 I said to the angel who was talking to me, ‘What are these?’ He said to me, ‘These are the horns which scattered Judah (Israel) and Jerusalem.’

3 Yahweh then showed me four smiths.

4 And I said, ‘What are these coming to do?’ He said to me, ‘(Those horns scattered Judah so completely that no one dared to raise his head; but) these have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who raised their horns over the land of Judah to scatter it.’

5 Then, raising my eyes, I had a vision. There was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

6 I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘To measure Jerusalem, to calculate her width and length.’

7 And then, while the angel who was talking to me walked away, another angel came out to meet him.

8 He said to him, ‘Run, and tell that young man this, “Jerusalem is to remain unwalled, because of the great number of men and cattle inside.

9 For I — Yahweh declares — shall be a wall of fire all round her and I shall be the Glory within her.” ‘

10 Look out! Look out! Flee from the land of the north — Yahweh declares- for I have scattered you to the four winds of heavenYahweh declares.

11 Look out! Make your escape, Zion, now living with the daughter of Babylon!

12 For Yahweh Sabaoth says this, since the Glory commissioned me, about the nations who plundered you, ‘Whoever touches you touches the apple of my eye.

13 Now look, I shall wave my hand over them and they will be plundered by those whom they have enslaved.’ Then you will know that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me!

14 Sing, rejoice, daughter of Zion, for now I am coming to live among you -Yahweh declares!

15 And on that day many nations will be converted to Yahweh. Yes, they will become his people, and they will live among you. Then you will know that Yahweh Sabaoth has sent me to you!

16 Yahweh will take possession of Judah, his portion in the Holy Land, and again make Jerusalem his choice.

17 Let all people be silent before Yahweh, now that he is stirring from his holy Dwelling!

Zachariah 3

1 He then showed me the high priest Joshua, standing before the angel of Yahweh, with Satan standing on his right to accuse him.

2 The angel of Yahweh said to Satan, ‘May Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! May Yahweh rebuke you, since he has made Jerusalem his choice. Is not this man a brand snatched from the fire?’

3 Now Joshua was dressed in dirty clothes as he stood before the angel.

4 The latter then spoke as follows to those who were standing before him, ‘Take off his dirty clothesand dress him in splendid robes

5 and put a clean turban on his head.’ So they put a clean turban on his head and dressed him in clean clothes, while the angel of Yahweh stood byand said, ‘You see, I have taken your guilt away.’

6 The angel of Yahweh then made this declaration to Joshua,

7 ‘Yahweh Sabaoth says this, “If you walk in my ways and keep my ordinances, you shall govern my house, you shall watch over my courts, and I will give you free access among those in attendance here.

8 ‘So listen, High Priest Joshua, you and the colleagues over whom you preside — for they are an omen of things to come — for now I shall bring in my servant the Branch, and I shall remove this country’s guilt in a single day.

9 For this is the stone which I have put before Joshua, a stone on which are seven eyes; and I myself shall cut the inscription on it — Yahweh Sabaoth declares.”

10 On that day — Yahweh Sabaoth declares — invite each other to come under your vine and your fig tree.” ‘


Revelation 17

1 One of the seven angels that had the seven bowls came to speak to me, and said, ‘Come here and I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute who is enthroned beside abundant waters,

2 with whom all the kings of the earth have prostituted themselves, and who has made all the population of the world drunk with the wine of her adultery.’

3 He took me in spirit to a desert, and there I saw a woman riding a scarlet beast which had seven heads and ten horns and had blasphemous titles written all over it.

4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and glittered with gold and jewels and pearls, and she was holding a gold winecup filled with the disgusting filth of her prostitution;

5 on her forehead was written a name, a cryptic name: ‘Babylon the Great, the mother of all the prostitutes and all the filthy practices on the earth.’

6 I saw that she was drunk, drunk with the blood of the saints, and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus; and when I saw her, I was completely mystified.

7 The angel said to me, ‘Do you not understand? I will tell you the meaning of this woman, and of the beast she is riding, with the seven heads and the ten horns.

8 ‘The beast you have seen was once alive and is alive no longer; it is yet to come up from the Abyss, but only to go to its destruction. And the people of the world, whose names have not been written since the beginning of the world in the book of life, will be astonished when they see how the beast was once alive and is alive no longer, and is still to come.

9 ‘This calls for shrewdness. The seven heads are the seven hills, on which the woman is sitting.

10 The seven heads are also seven emperors. Five of them have already gone, one is here now, and one is yet to come; once here, he must stay for a short while.

11 The beast, who was alive and is alive no longer, is at the same time the eighth and one of the seven, and he is going to his destruction.

12 ‘The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet been given their royal power but will have royal authority only for a single hour and in association with the beast.

13 They are all of one mind in putting their strength and their powers at the beast’s disposal,

14 and they will go to war against the Lamb; but because the Lamb is Lord of lords and King of kings, he will defeat them, he and his followers, the called, the chosen, the trustworthy.’

15 The angel continued, ‘The waters you saw, beside which the prostitute was sitting, are all the peoples, the populations, the nations and the languages.

16 But the ten horns and the beast will turn against the prostitute, and tear off her clothes and leave her stark naked; then they will eat her flesh and burn the remains in the fire.

17 In fact, God has influenced their minds to do what he intends, to agree together to put their royal powers at the beast’s disposal until the time when God’s words shall be fulfilled.

18 The woman you saw is the great city which has authority over all the rulers on earth.’


The complete Book of Zechariah

The book of Revelation

Sermons on the Book of Zechariah

Sermon on the Book of Revelation

Catholic Daily Readings at every Mass

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Take a half hour, put this on a large screen for easier reading as you watch and listen to the soothing music by Enya. It certainly refreshes my mind and heart and keeps me in positive faith. God Bless You.
Words from August 3, and 4,

Dr. Myles Munroe

Myles Munroe’s Message shortly before his Death! Chilling

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Rosary Mysteries

Joyful Mysteries

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Luminous Mysteries

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Sorrowful Mysteries

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Glorious Mysteries

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Prayers of the Rosary

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord;

Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried,

He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into Heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

(this prayer is optional and may be said after all Glory Be to the Fathers…..)

O my Jesus, forgive us our sins. Save us from the fires of hell.

Lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are in most need of thy mercy.

Console the souls in Purgatory, particularly those most abandoned. Amen

Hail Mary,

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The Hail, Holy Queen

Hail Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, our life our sweetness and our hope.

To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve;

To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.

Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy toward us and after this our exile show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary!

That we maybe made worthy of the promises of Christ.

Closing Prayer

O God, whose only begotten Son, by His life, death, and resurrection, has purchased for us the rewards of eternal salvation.

Grant, we beseech Thee, that while meditating on these mysteries of the most holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

that we may imitate what they contain and obtain what they promise, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

(The Fatima Prayer:)

Most Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – I adore thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges and indifference’s whereby He is offended. And through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg of Thee the conversion of poor sinners.

Prayer to St. Michael

Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do you, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

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