Catholic Daily Reading 9th September 2012

"Isa 35:4  Say to the fainthearted: Take courage, and fear not: behold your God will bring the revenge of recompense: God himself will come and will save you.
Isa 35:5  Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isa 35:6  Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall be free: for waters are broken out in the desert, and streams in the wilderness.
Isa 35:7  And that which was dry land, shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush."
Isaiah 35:4-7

"Psa 146:7  Who keepeth truth for ever: who executeth judgment for them that suffer wrong: who giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth them that are fettered:
Psa 146:8  The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.
Psa 146:9  The Lord keepeth the strangers, he will support the fatherless and the widow: and the ways of sinners he will destroy.
Psa 146:10  The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation."
Psalm 146:7-10

"Mar 7:31  And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst the of the coasts of Decapolis.
Mar 7:32  And they bring to him one deaf and dumb: and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.
Mar 7:33  And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears: and spitting, he touched his tongue.
Mar 7:34  And looking up to heaven, he groaned and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.
Mar 7:35  And immediately his ears were opened and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spoke right.
Mar 7:36  And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
Mar 7:37  And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well. He hath made both the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak."
Mark 7:31-37

"Jas 2:1  My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, with respect of persons.
Jas 2:2  For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire:
Jas 2:3  And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel and shall say to him: Sit thou here well: but say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or: Sit under my footstool:
Jas 2:4  Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?
Jas 2:5  Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?"
James 2:1-5