Look to this day, for it is Life, the very life of Life; In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence… the bliss of Growth, the glory of Action, the splendour of Beauty. For Yesterday is but a dream, and Tomorrow only a vision; But Today well lived makes Yesterday…

<a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="javascript:avPlayer('http://websrvr40nj.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdsnjwebsrvr4453/catholiclectionary/8_08_11.mp3','Beliefnet presents today\'s lectionary reading fromthe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’,’/imgs/avplayer/player_bibleaudiofeed.jpg’,’320′,’240′);”>Hear Today’s Lectionary Reading Reading I: Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c Responsorial Psalm: 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14 Gospel Reading: Matthew 17:22-27 To read the text for today’s reading, please click here. All audio of the Lectionary readings are used with permission by the…

John 3:1-21 1 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.”…

[1] There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: [2] The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. [3] Jesus…

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