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This week’s readings are all from Matthew 1-4. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapter of Matthew 1-4. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.

This week’s readings are all from Matthew 1-4. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapter of Matthew 1-4. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.

The Gospel of Matthew opens with a great list of names. Maybe because of all the ‘begats’ in the book of Numbers, we see a genealogy like this and skip to verse 17 where the hard-to-pronounce names are no longer present. Maybe because we see little purpose in reading through the repetitive sentences, we move on to the ‘story,’ convincing ourselves that we’re reading efficiently, to get to the good stuff. But, we’d be wrong.

This week’s readings are all from Matthew 1-4. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapter of Matthew 1-4. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.

This week we begin the Gospel of Matthew. The reading is a bit more than normal: four chapters. Matthew 1-4 has many familiar stories: the birth of Jesus, the baptism, the temptation, introduction of Jesus’ message and work, and the calling of the first disciples. This week’s readings are:

Sunday: Matthew 1-4
Monday: Matthew 1:1-17
Tuesday: Matthew 1:18-2:12
Wednesday: Matthew 2:13-3:10
Thursday: Matthew 3:11-4:7
Friday: Matthew 4:8-25