Brothers and sisters: Christ, while we were still helpless, yet died at the appointed time for the ungodly.

In those days, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp.

Elijah set out, and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth.

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Moses said to the people: “You are a people sacred to the Lord, your God; he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own.

I n those days a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

Ahab sent to all the children of Israel and had the prophets assemble on Mount Carmel.

The brook near where Elijah was hiding ran dry, because no rain had fallen in the land.

Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, during these years there shall be no dew or rain except at my word.” The Lord then said to Elijah: “Leave here, go east and hide in the Wadi Cherith, east of the Jordan.

Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?