Preparing for the Second
Sunday in Lent
Year A

Daily Readings for Thursday
February 26, 2026

Prayer

God of amazing compassion, 

lover of our wayward race, 

you bring to birth a pilgrim people, 

and call us to be a blessing for ourselves and all the world. 

We pray for grace to take your generous gift 

and step with courage on this holy path, 

confident in the radiant life that is your plan for us, 

made known and given in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

 

Psalm 121

The Lord watches over you

 

I lift up my eyes to the hills—

from where will my help come?

My help comes from the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot be moved;

he who keeps you will not slumber.

He who keeps Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord is your keeper;

the Lord is your shade at your right hand.

The sun shall not strike you by day,

nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all evil;

he will keep your life.

The Lord will keep

your going out and your coming in

from this time on and forevermore.

 

Isaiah 51:1-3

Look to Abraham and Sarah

 

Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,

you that seek the Lord.

Look to the rock from which you were hewn,

and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Look to Abraham your father

and to Sarah who bore you;

for he was but one when I called him,

but I blessed him and made him many.

For the Lord will comfort Zion;

he will comfort all her waste places,

and will make her wilderness like Eden,

her desert like the garden of the Lord;

joy and gladness will be found in her,

thanksgiving and the voice of song.

 

2 Timothy 1:3-7

Faith handed down from faithful mothers

 

I am grateful to God—whom I worship with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did—when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. Recalling your tears, I long to see you so that I may be filled with joy. I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, lives in you. For this reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands; for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

 

 

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