Day 1: Psalm 1-2; Matthew 1-3

NABRE

Psalms 1

1Blessed is the man who does not walkin the counsel of the wicked,Nor stand in the way of sinners,nor sit in company with scoffers.2Rather, the law of the LORD is his joy;and on his law he meditates day and night.3He is like a treeplanted near streams of water,that yields its fruit in season;Its leaves never wither;whatever he does prospers.4But not so are the wicked, not so!They are like chaff driven by the wind.5Therefore the wicked will not arise at the judgment,nor will sinners in the assembly of the just.6Because the LORD knows the way of the just,but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.

Psalms 2

1Why do the nations protestand the peoples conspire in vain?2Kings on earth rise upand princes plot togetheragainst the LORD and against his anointed one:3“Let us break their shacklesand cast off their chains from us!”4The one enthroned in heaven laughs;the Lord derides them,5Then he speaks to them in his anger,in his wrath he terrifies them:6“I myself have installed my kingon Zion, my holy mountain.”7I will proclaim the decree of the LORD,he said to me, “You are my son;today I have begotten you.8Ask it of me,and I will give you the nations as your inheritance,and, as your possession, the ends of the earth.9With an iron rod you will shepherd them,like a potter’s vessel you will shatter them.”10And now, kings, give heed;take warning, judges on earth.11Serve the LORD with fear;exult with trembling,Accept correctionlest he become angry and you perish along the waywhen his anger suddenly blazes up.Blessed are all who take refuge in him!