Catholic Daily Reading 13th February 2013

"Joe 2:12  Now, therefore, saith the Lord. Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and mourning.
Joe 2:13  And rend your hearts, and not your garments and turn to the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, patient and rich in mercy, and ready to repent of the evil.
Joe 2:14  Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?
Joe 2:15  Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly,
Joe 2:16  Gather together the people, sanctify the church, assemble the ancients, gather together the little ones, and them that suck at the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth from his bed, and the bride out of her bridal chamber.
Joe 2:17  Between the porch and the altar the priests, the Lord's ministers, shall weep, and shall say: Spare, O Lord, spare thy people: and give not thy inheritane to reproach, that the heathens should rule over them. Why should they say among the nations: Where is their God?
Joe 2:18  The Lord hath been zealons for his land, and hath spared his people."
Joel 2:12-18

"Psa 51:3 Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy great mercy. And according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my iniquity.
Psa 51:4 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psa 51:5 For I know my iniquity, and my sin is always before me.
Psa 51:6 To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee: that thou mayst be justified in thy words, and mayst overcome when thou art judged.
Psa 51:12 Create a clean heart in me, O God: and renew a right spirit within my bowels.
Psa 51:13 Cast me not away from thy face; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
Psa 51:14 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and strengthen me with a perfect spirit.
Psa 51:17 O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise. "
Psalm 51:3-6,12-14,17

"Mat 6:1  Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.
Mat 6:2  Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
Mat 6:3  But when thou dost alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth.
Mat 6:4  That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.
Mat 6:5  And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
Mat 6:6  But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will repay thee.
Mat 6:16  And when you fast, be not as the hypocrites, sad. For they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.
Mat 6:17  But thou, when thou fastest anoint thy head, and wash thy face;
Mat 6:18  That thou appear not to men to fast, but to thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret, will repay thee."
Matthew 6:1-6,16-18

"2Co 5:20  For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.
2Co 5:21  Him, who knew no sin, he hath made sin for us: that we might be made the justice of God in him. Sin for us... That is, to be a sin offering, a victim for sin.
2Co 6:1  And we helping do exhort you that you receive not the grace of God in vain.
2Co 6:2  For he saith: In an accepted time have I heard thee and in the day of salvation have I helped thee. Behold, now is the acceptable time: behold, now is the day of salvation."
2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2