{"id":874,"date":"2019-10-01T19:32:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/?page_id=874"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:41:00","slug":"daily-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/index.php\/daily-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scripture Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"761\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png\" alt=\"Scripture\" class=\"wp-image-440\" style=\"width:219px;height:88px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6.png 761w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/coloured-glass-menu-x5a6-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"186\" src=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-1024x186.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-302\" style=\"width:1020px;height:185px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-1024x186.png 1024w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-300x55.png 300w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1-768x140.png 768w, https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/glass-1.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>This week&#8217;s readings from Scripture<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the Scripture readings for Sundays of the Year. Read and reflect on them as part of your daily prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script>\n\/\/ All Mnths\n\nfunction MakeArray(n) {\n    this.length = n\n    return this\n}\nmonthNames = new MakeArray(12)\nmonthNames[1] = \"January\"\nmonthNames[2] = \"February\"\nmonthNames[3] = \"March\"\nmonthNames[4] = \"April\"\nmonthNames[5] = \"May\"\nmonthNames[6] = \"June\"\nmonthNames[7] = \"July\"\nmonthNames[8] = \"August\"\nmonthNames[9] = \"September\"\nmonthNames[10] = \"October\"\nmonthNames[11] = \"November\"\nmonthNames[12] = \"December\"\ndayNames = new MakeArray(7)\ndayNames[1] = \"Sunday\"\ndayNames[2] = \"Monday\"\ndayNames[3] = \"Tuesday\"\ndayNames[4] = \"Wednesday\"\ndayNames[5] = \"Thursday\"\ndayNames[6] = \"Friday\"\ndayNames[7] = \"Saturday\"\nfunction customDateString(oneDate) {\n    var theDay = dayNames[oneDate.getDay() + 1]\n    var theMonth = monthNames[oneDate.getMonth() + 1]\n    var theYear = oneDate.getFullYear()\n    theYear += (theYear < 100) ? 1900 : 0\n    return \"Today is: \" + theDay + \", \" + oneDate.getDate() + \" \" + theMonth + \", \" + theYear\n}\n\n<\/script>\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><font color='#0033CC'>\n<script>\ndocument.write (\"<B>\")\ntoday = new Date()\nvar header =\n(customDateString(today))\nheader += \"<BR>\"\ndocument.write(header)\n\n<\/script><\/font>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<style>\n    #Week, #Weeka { font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.3em; }\n    #Week-heading, #Week-headinga { text-align: center; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #0033CC; margin-bottom: 1em; }\n    .weekly-image { width: 100%; max-width: 200px; margin-bottom: 1em; border-radius: 8px; }\n\n    .section-title { font-weight: bold; color: #0033CC; margin-top: 0.5em; }\n    .section-subtitle { font-style: italic; color: #555; margin: 0.0em 0; }\n    .section-text { text-align: justify; line-height: 1.3; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; }\n\n    hr { margin: 3em 0; border: none; border-top: 2px solid #ccc; }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n\n  <!-- First Weekly Block -->\n  <div id=\"Week\"><\/div>\n  <div id=\"Week-heading\"><\/div>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"weekly-image\" class=\"weekly-image\" src=\"\" alt=\"Weekly Graphic\" \/>\n  <div id=\"block1\"><\/div>\n\n  \n  <script>\n \n\n    const weeklyContent = [\n      {\n        heading: \"3rd Sunday of Easter\",\n        image: \"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3rd-Easter-2026.png\",\n        sections: [\n          { title: \"A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 2:14, 22-33\", subtitle: \"It was impossible for him to be held in the power of Hades.\", text: \"On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: \u2018Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you all know. This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified by men outside the Law. You killed him, but God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David says of him:\\n\\nI saw the Lord before me always,\\nfor with him at my right hand nothing can shake me.\\nSo my heart was glad\\nand my tongue cried out with joy;\\nmy body, too, will rest in the hope\\nthat you will not abandon my soul to Hades\\nnor allow your holy one to experience corruption.\\nYou have made known the way of life to me,\\nyou will fill me with gladness through your presence.\\n\\n\u2018Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us. But since he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants succeed him on the throne, what he foresaw and spoke about was the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not experience corruption. God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to that. Now raised to the heights by God\u2019s right hand, he has received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.\u2019\" },\n\n          { title: \"Psalm: 15(16):1-2,5, 7-11\", subtitle: \"Show us, Lord, the path of life.\", text: \"Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you.\\nI say to the Lord: \u2018You are my God.\\nO Lord, it is you who are my portion and cup;\\nit is you yourself who are my prize.\u2019\\n\\nI will bless the Lord who gives me counsel,\\nwho even at night directs my heart.\\nI keep the Lord ever in my sight:\\nsince he is at my right hand, I shall stand firm.\\n\\nAnd so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad;\\neven my body shall rest in safety.\\nFor you will not leave my soul among the dead,\\nnor let your beloved know decay.\\n\\nYou will show me the path of life,\\nthe fullness of joy in your presence,\\nat your right hand happiness for ever.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the First Letter of St Peter 1:17-21\", subtitle: \"Your ransom was paid in the precious blood of a lamb without spot or stain, namely, Christ.\", text: \"If you are acknowledging as your Father one who has no favourites and judges everyone according to what he has done, you must be scrupulously careful as long as you are living away from your home. Remember, the ransom that was paid to free you from the useless way of life your ancestors handed down was not paid in anything corruptible, neither in silver nor gold, but in the precious blood of a lamb without spot or stain, namely Christ; who, though known since before the world was made, has been revealed only in our time, the end of the ages, for your sake. Through him you now have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory for that very reason \u2013 so that you would have faith and hope in God.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the Gospel of St Luke 24:13-35\", subtitle: \"They recognised him at the breaking of bread.\", text: \"Two of the disciples of Jesus were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now as they talked this over, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but something prevented them from recognising him. He said to them, \u2018What matters are you discussing as you walk along?\u2019 They stopped short, their faces downcast.\\nThen one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, \u2018You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.\u2019 \u2018What things?\u2019 he asked. \u2018All about Jesus of Nazareth\u2019 they answered \u2018who proved he was a great prophet by the things he said and did in the sight of God and of the whole people; and how our chief priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified. Our own hope had been that he would be the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole days have gone by since it all happened; and some women from our group have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning, and when they did not find the body, they came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. Some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported, but of him they saw nothing.\u2019\\nThen he said to them, \u2018You foolish men! So slow to believe the full message of the prophets! Was it not ordained that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?\u2019 Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself.\\nWhen they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on; but they pressed him to stay with them. \u2018It is nearly evening\u2019 they said \u2018and the day is almost over.\u2019 So he went in to stay with them. Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, \u2018Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?\u2019\\nThey set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions, who said to them, \u2018Yes, it is true. The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.\u2019 Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.\" }\n        ]\n      },\n      {\n        heading: \"4th Sunday of Easter\",\n        image: \"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4th-Easter-2026.png\",\n        sections: [\n          { title: \"A reading from the Acts of the Apostles 2:14,36-41\", subtitle: \"God has made him both Lord and Christ\", text: \"On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: \u201cThe whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.\u201d\\nHearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, \u201cWhat must we do, brothers?\u201d \u201cYou must repent,\u201d Peter answered \u201cand every one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all those whom the Lord our God will call to himself.\u201d He spoke to them for a long time using many arguments, and he urged them, \u201cSave yourselves from this perverse generation.\u201d They were convinced by his arguments, and they accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand were added to their number.\" },\n\n          { title: \"Psalm 22(23)\", subtitle: \"The Lord is my shepherd: there is nothing I shall want.\", text: \"The Lord is my shepherd;\\n there is nothing I shall want.\\nFresh and green are the pastures\\nwhere he gives me repose.\\nNear restful waters he leads me,\\nto revive my drooping spirit.\\n\\nHe guides me along the right path;\\nhe is true to his name.\\nIf I should walk in the valley of darkness\\nno evil would I fear.\\nYou are there with your crook and your staff;\\nwith these you give me comfort.\\n\\nYou have prepared a banquet for me\\nin the sight of my foes.\\nMy head you have anointed with oil;\\nmy cup is overflowing.\\n\\nSurely goodness and kindness shall follow me\\nall the days of my life.\\nIn the Lord\u2019s own house shall I dwell\\nfor ever and ever.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the First Letter of St Peter 2:20-25\", subtitle: \"YYou have come back to the shepherd of your souls\", text: \"The merit, in the sight of God, is in bearing punishment patiently when you are punished after doing your duty.\\n\\nThis, in fact, is what you were called to do, because Christ suffered for you and left an example for you to follow the way he took. He had not done anything wrong, and there had been no perjury in his mouth. He was insulted and did not retaliate with insults; when he was tortured he made no threats but he put his trust in the righteous judge. He was bearing our faults in his own body on the cross, so that we might die to our faults and live for holiness; through his wounds you have been healed. You had gone astray like sheep but now you have come back to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the Gospel of St John 10:1-10\", subtitle: \"I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.\", text: \"Jesus said:\\n\u201cI tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand. The one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gatekeeper lets him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads them out. When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow because they know his voice. They never follow a stranger but run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.\u201d\\n Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by telling it to them.\\nSo Jesus spoke to them again:\\n\\n\u201cI tell you most solemnly,\\nI am the gate of the sheepfold.\\nAll others who have come\\nare thieves and brigands;\\nbut the sheep took no notice of them.\\nI am the gate.\\nAnyone who enters through me will be safe:\\nhe will go freely in and out\\nand be sure of finding pasture.\\nThe thief comes\\nonly to steal and kill and destroy.\\nI have come\\nso that they may have life and have it to the full.\u201d\" }\n        ]\n      },\n      {\n        heading: \"5th Sunday of Easter \",\n        image: \"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5th-Easter-2026.png\",\n        sections: [\n          { title: \"A reading from the Acts of the Apotles 6:1-7\", subtitle: \" They elected seven men full of the Holy Spirit\", text: \"About this time, when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenists made a complaint against the Hebrews: in the daily distribution their own widows were being overlooked. So the Twelve called a full meeting of the disciples and addressed them, \u201cIt would not be right for us to neglect the word of God so as to give out food; you, brothers, must select from among yourselves seven men of good reputation, filled with the Spirit and with wisdom; we will hand over this duty to them, and continue to devote ourselves to prayer and to the service of the word.\u201d The whole assembly approved of this proposal and elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, together with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus of Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them.\\nThe word of the Lord continued to spread: the number of disciples in Jerusalem was greatly increased, and a large group of priests made their submission to the faith.\" },\n          { title: \"Psalm: 32(33):1-2, 4-5, 18-19\", subtitle: \"May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you.\", text: \"Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just;\\n    for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.\\nGive thanks to the Lord upon the harp,\\nwith a ten-stringed lute sing him songs.\\n\\nFor the word of the Lord is faithful\\nand all his works to be trusted.\\nThe Lord loves justice and right\\nand fills the earth with his love.\\n\\nThe Lord looks on those who revere him,\\non those who hope in his love,\\nto rescue their souls from death,\\nto keep them alive in famine.\" },\n          { title: \"A reading from the First Letter of St Peter 2:4-9\", subtitle: \"Christ is the living stone, chosen by God and precious to him\", text: \"The Lord is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living stones making a spiritual house. As scripture says: See how I lay in Zion a precious cornerstone that I have chosen and the man who rests his trust on it will not be disappointed. That means that for you who are believers, it is precious; but for unbelievers, the stone rejected by the builders has proved to be the keystone, a stone to stumble over, a rock to bring men down. They stumble over it because they do not believe in the word; it was the fate in store for them.\\nBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light. \" },\n          { title: \"A reading from the Gospel of St John 14:1-12\", subtitle: \"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life\", text: \"Jesus said to his disciples:\\n\u201cDo not let your hearts be troubled.\\nTrust in God still, and trust in me.\\nThere are many rooms in my Father\u2019s house;\\nif there were not, I should have told you.\\nI am going now to prepare a place for you,\\nand after I have gone and prepared you a place,\\nI shall return to take you with me;\\nso that where I am\\nyou may be too.\\nYou know the way to the place where I am going.\u201d\\n\\nThomas said, \u201cLord, we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?\u201d Jesus said:\\n\\n\u201cI am the Way, the Truth and the Life.\\nNo one can come to the Father except through me.\\nIf you know me, you know my Father too.\\nFrom this moment you know him and have seen him.\u201d\\n\\nPhilip said, \u201cLord, let us see the Father and then we shall be satisfied.\u201d \u201cHave I been with you all this time, Philip,\u201d said Jesus to him \u201cand you still do not know me?\\n\\n\u201cTo have seen me is to have seen the Father,\\nso how can you say, \u201cLet us see the Father\u201d?\\nDo you not believe\\nthat I am in the Father and the Father is in me?\\nThe words I say to you I do not speak as from myself:\\nit is the Father, living in me, who is doing this work.\\nYou must believe me when I say\\nthat I am in the Father and the Father is in me;\\nbelieve it on the evidence of this work, if for no other reason.\\nI tell you most solemnly,\\nwhoever believes in me\\nwill perform the same works as I do myself,\\nhe will perform even greater works,\\nbecause I am going to the Father.\u201d\" }\n        ]\n      },\n      {\n        heading: \"6th Sunday of Easter\",\n        image: \"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6th-Easter-2026.png\",\n        sections: [\n          { title: \"A reading from the Acts of the Apostles 8:5-8, 14-17\", subtitle: \"They laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit\", text: \"Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.\\nWhen the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.\" },\n\n          { title: \"Psalm: 65(66):1-7, 16,20\", subtitle: \"Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.\", text: \"Cry out with joy to God all the earth,\\n    O sing to the glory of his name.\\nO render him glorious praise.\\nSay to God: \u2018How tremendous your deeds!\\n\\n\u2018Before you all the earth shall bow;\\n    shall sing to you, sing to your name!\u2019\\nCome and see the works of God,\\ntremendous his deeds among men.\\n\\nHe turned the sea into dry land,\\nthey passed through the river dry-shod.\\nLet our joy then be in him;\\nhe rules for ever by his might.\\n\\nCome and hear, all who fear God.\\nI will tell what he did for my soul:\\nBlessed be God who did not reject my prayer\\nnor withhold his love from me.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the First Letter of St Peter 3:15-18\", subtitle: \"In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life\", text: \"Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts, and always have your answer ready for people who ask you the reason for the hope that you all have. But give it with courtesy and respect and with a clear conscience, so that those who slander you when you are living a good life in Christ may be proved wrong in the accusations that they bring. And if it is the will of God that you should suffer, it is better to suffer for doing right than for doing wrong.\\nWhy, Christ himself, innocent though he was, had died once for sins, died for the guilty, to lead us to God. In the body he was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the Gospel of St John 14:15-21\", subtitle: \"I shall ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate\", text: \"Jesus said to his disciples:\\n\u201cIf you love me you will keep my commandments.\\nI shall ask the Father,\\nand he will give you another Advocate\\nto be with you for ever,\\nthat Spirit of truth\\nwhom the world can never receive\\nsince it neither sees nor knows him;\\nbut you know him,\\nbecause he is with you, he is in you.\\nI will not leave you orphans;\\nI will come back to you.\\nIn a short time the world will no longer see me;\\nbut you will see me,\\nbecause I live and you will live.\\nOn that day you will understand that I am in my Father\\nand you in me and I in you.\\nAnybody who receives my commandments and keeps them\\nwill be one who loves me;\\nand anybody who loves me will be loved by my Father,\\nand I shall love him and show myself to him.\u201d\" }\n        ]\n      },      \n      {\n        heading: \"7th Sunday of Easter\",\n        image: \"https:\/\/prayerfulness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7th-Easter-2026.png\",\n        sections: [\n          { title: \"A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Acts 1:12-14\", subtitle: \"Ihe apostles all joined in continuous prayer with Mary, the mother of Jesus\", text: \"After Jesus was taken up into heaven the apostles went back from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, to Jerusalem, a short distance away, no more than a sabbath walk; and when they reached the city they went to the upper room where they were staying; there were Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Jude son of James. All these joined in continuous prayer, together with several women, including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.\" },\n\n          { title: \"Psalm: 26(27):1, 4, 7-8\", subtitle: \"I am sure I shall see the Lord\u2019s goodness in the land of the living.\", text: \"The Lord is my light and my help;\\nwhom shall I fear?\\nThe Lord is the stronghold of my life;\\nbefore whom shall I shrink?\\n\\nThere is one thing I ask of the Lord,\\nfor this I long,\\nto live in the house of the Lord,\\nall the days of my life,\\nto savour the sweetness of the Lord,\\nto behold his temple.\\n\\nO Lord, hear my voice when I call;\\nhave mercy and answer.\\nOf you my heart has spoken:\\n\u2018Seek his face.\u2019\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the First Letter of St Peter 4:13-16\", subtitle: \"It is a blessing for you when they insult you for bearing the name of Christ\", text: \"If you can have some share in the sufferings of Christ, be glad, because you will enjoy a much greater gladness when his glory is revealed. It is a blessing for you when they insult you for bearing the name of Christ, because it means that you have the Spirit of glory, the Spirit of God resting on you. None of you should ever deserve to suffer for being a murderer, a thief, a criminal or an informer; but if anyone of you should suffer for being a Christian, then he is not to be ashamed of it; he should thank God that he has been called one.\" },\n\n          { title: \"A reading from the Gospel of St John 17:1-11\", subtitle: \"Father, it is time for you to glorify me\", text: \"Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:\\n\u201cFather, the hour has come:\\nglorify your Son\\nso that your Son may glorify you;\\nand, through the power over all mankind that you have given him,\\nlet him give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.\\nAnd eternal life is this:\\nto know you,\\nthe only true God,\\nand Jesus Christ whom you have sent.\\nI have glorified you on earth\\nand finished the work that you gave me to do.\\nNow, Father, it is time for you to glorify me\\nwith that glory I had with you\\nbefore ever the world was.\\nI have made your name known\\nto the men you took from the world to give me.\\nThey were yours and you gave them to me,\\nand they have kept your word.\\nNow at last they know\\nthat all you have given me comes indeed from you;\\nfor I have given them the teaching you gave to me,\\nand they have truly accepted this, that I came from you,\\nand have believed that it was you who sent me.\\nI pray for them;\\nI am not praying for the world\\nbut for those you have given me,\\nbecause they belong to you:\\nall I have is yours\\nand all you have is mine,\\nand in them I am glorified.\\nI am not in the world any longer,\\nbut they are in the world,\\nand I am coming to you.\u201d\" }\n        ]\n      }\n\n\n    ];\n\n    const startDate = new Date(\"2026-4-19\");\n    const today = new Date();\n    const daysElapsed = Math.floor((today - startDate) \/ (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));\n    const weekIndex = Math.min(Math.floor(daysElapsed \/ 7), weeklyContent.length - 1);\n\n    const week = weeklyContent[weekIndex];\n  \n\n    \/\/ First block\n    \n    document.getElementById(\"Week-heading\").textContent = week.heading;\n    document.getElementById(\"weekly-image\").src = week.image;\n\n    const block1 = document.getElementById(\"block1\");\n    week.sections.forEach((s, i) => {\n      block1.innerHTML += `\n        <div id=\"Title${i + 1}\" class=\"section-title\">${s.title}<\/div>\n        <div id=\"Title${i + 1}.1\" class=\"section-subtitle\">${s.subtitle}<\/div>\n        <div id=\"main-text${i + 1}.1\" class=\"section-text\">${s.text.replace(\/\\n\/g, \"<br>\").replace(\/\\*(.*?)\\*\/g, \"<em>$1<\/em>\")}<\/div>\n      `;\n    });\n\n\n  <\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gradient-text\">Today's Prayer<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n  <style>\n    .quote-box2 {\n      padding: 0px;\n      width: 90%;\n      margin: auto;\n      background-color: #ffffff;\n    }\n    .day2 {\n      font-weight: bold;\n      font-size: 1em;\n      color: #0033CC;\n    }\n    .quote2 {\n      font-style: italic;\n      color: #444;\n    }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n  <div class=\"quote-box\">\n    <div class=\"day2\" id=\"dayName2\"><\/div>\n    <div class=\"quote2\" id=\"quoteText2\"><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <script>\n    const quotes2 = {\n      0: [\n        \"Lord of Life,\",\n\t\"increase our faith\",\n\t\"and strengthen our trust in you.\",\n\t\"So inspired\",\n\t\"help us to preach repentance,\",\n\t\"cast away all evil\",\n\t\"and bring your healing to all\",\n\t\"who suffer in spirit, mind and body.\",\n\t\"Through Christ our Lord. 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