Catholic Daily Reading 16th September 2012

"Isa 50:4  The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
Isa 50:5  The Lord God hath opened my ear, and I do not resist: I have not gone back.
Isa 50:6  I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.
Isa 50:7  The Lord God is my helper, therefore am I not confounded: therefore have I set my face as a most hard rock, and I know that I shall not be confounded.
Isa 50:8  He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
Isa 50:9  Behold the Lord God is my helper: who is he that shall condemn me? Lo, they shall all be destroyed as a garment, the moth shall eat them up. "
Isaiah 50:4-9

"Psa 116:1  I have loved, because the Lord will hear the voice of my prayer.
Psa 116:2  Because he hath inclined his ear unto me: and in my days I will call upon him.
Psa 116:3  The sorrows of death have compassed me: and the perils of hell have found me. I met with trouble and sorrow:
Psa 116:4  And I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, deliver my soul.
Psa 116:5  The Lord is merciful and just, and our God sheweth mercy.
Psa 116:6  The Lord is the keeper of little ones: I was humbled, and he delivered me.
Psa 116:8  For he hath delivered my soul from death: my eyes from tears, my feet from falling.
Psa 116:9  I will please the Lord in the land of the living."
Psalm 116:1-6,8-9

"Mar 8:27  And Jesus went out, and his disciples into the towns of Caesarea Philippi. And in the way, he asked his disciples, saying to them: Whom do men say that I am?
Mar 8:28  Who answered him, saying: John the Baptist; but some Elias, and others as one of the prophets.
Mar 8:29  Then he saith to them: But whom do you say that I am? Peter answering said to him: Thou art the Christ.
Mar 8:30  And he strictly charged them that they should not tell any man of him.
Mar 8:31  And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things and be rejected by the ancients and by the high priests and the scribes: and be killed and after three days rise again.
Mar 8:32  And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him began to rebuke him.
Mar 8:33  Who turning about and seeing his disciples, threatened Peter, saying: Go behind me, Satan, because thou savourest not the things that are of God but that are of men.
Mar 8:34  And calling the multitude together with his disciples, he said to them: If any man will follow me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
Mar 8:35  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel shall save it."
Mark 8:27-35

"Jas 2:14  What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?
Jas 2:15  And if a brother or sister be naked and want daily food:
Jas 2:16  And one of you say to them: Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body, what shall it profit?
Jas 2:17  So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.
Jas 2:18  But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works. Shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith."
James 2:14-18