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Read Salvation History in a year

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Pope Francis declares special Sunday each year dedicated to Word of God

To help the church grow in love and faithful witness to God, Pope Francis has declared the third Sunday in Ordinary Time to be dedicated to the word of God.

Salvation, faith, unity and mercy all depend on knowing Christ and sacred Scripture, he said in the new document, “Aperuit Illis,” the name of which is based on a verse from the Gospel of St. Luke, “Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.”

Devoting a special day “to the celebration, study and dissemination of the word of God” will help the church “experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world,” the pope said.

To help island Catholics appreciate Scripture more, Father Mark Gantley, the diocesan judicial vicar, has mapped out a schedule of daily scripture readings that trace salvation history, the record of God’s relationship with human beings, for the ultimate purpose of leading them all to heaven.
Clip this page and grab a Bible and check off each day as you complete its reading.

By Father Mark Gantley
Special to the Herald

Pre-History: Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, Babel

  1. Genesis 1:1-2:3
  2. Genesis 2:4-25
  3. Genesis 3
  4. Genesis 4
  5. Genesis 5
  6. Genesis 6:5-7:5
  7. Genesis 7:6-8:5
  8. Genesis 8:6-22
  9. Genesis 9
  10. Genesis 10
  11. Genesis 11

Period of the Patriarchs: Abraham leaves Ur in 1850 BC; birth of Isaac and Jacob; 12 sons of Jacob

  1. Genesis 12
  2. Genesis 13
  3. Genesis 14
  4. Hebrews 7
  5. Genesis 15
  6. Genesis 16
  7. Genesis 17
  8. Genesis 18
  9. Genesis 19
  10. Genesis 20
  11. Genesis 21
  12. Genesis 22:1-19
  13. Genesis 23
  14. Genesis 24:1-27
  15. Genesis 24:28-67
  16. Genesis 25
  17. Genesis 26
  18. Genesis 27:1-45
  19. Genesis 27:46-28:22
  20. Genesis 29:1-30
  21. Genesis 29:31-30:24
  22. Genesis 30:25-31:24
  23. Genesis 31:25-32:3
  24. Genesis 32:4-32
  25. Genesis 33

Joseph sold into slavery; Israelites migrate into Egypt

  1. Genesis 34
  2. Genesis 35
  3. Genesis 37
  4. Genesis 38
  5. Genesis 39
  6. Genesis 40
  7. Genesis 41
  8. Genesis 42
  9. Genesis 43
  10. Genesis 44
  11. Genesis 45
  12. Genesis 46
  13. Genesis 47
  14. Genesis 48
  15. Genesis 49
  16. Genesis 50

Birth of Moses; Exodus out of Egypt in 1230 BC

  1. Exodus 1:1-2:10
  2. Exodus 2:11-3:10
  3. Exodus 3:11-4:17
  4. Exodus 4:18-5:21
  5. Exodus 5:22-6:27
  6. Exodus 6:28-7:24
  7. Exodus 7:25-8:28
  8. Exodus 9
  9. Exodus 10:1-20
  10. Exodus 10:21-11:10
  11. Exodus 12:1-30
  12. Exodus 12:31-13:16
  13. Exodus 13:17-14:25
  14. Exodus 14:26-15:21
  15. Exodus 15:22-16:36
  16. Exodus 17
  17. Exodus 18
  18. Exodus 19

Moses receives the Ten Commandments; 40 years spent in the desert

  1. Exodus 20
  2. Exodus 24
  3. Exodus 25
  4. Exodus 26
  5. Exodus 27
  6. Exodus 28:1-29:9
  7. Hebrews 8
  8. Exodus 29:10-30:10
  9. Exodus 32:1-33:6
  10. Exodus 33:7-34:9
  11. Exodus 34:10-35
  12. Exodus 40
  13. Numbers 1
  14. Numbers 3
  15. Numbers 6
  16. Numbers 9
  17. Numbers 10
  18. Numbers 11
  19. Numbers 12
  20. Numbers 13
  21. Numbers 14
  22. Numbers 15
  23. Numbers 16
  24. Numbers 17:1-26
  25. Numbers 17:27-18:24
  26. Numbers 20:1-13, 22-29; 21:4-9
  27. Numbers 27:12-28:10
  28. Numbers 28:16-29:16, 39
  29. Numbers 33
  30. Numbers 34:1-35:15
  31. Deuteronomy 1
  32. Deuteronomy 29
  33. Deuteronomy 30
  34. Deuteronomy 31
  35. Deuteronomy 32:44-33:1; 34:1-12
  36. Joshua 1
  37. Joshua 2

Joshua leads Israelites into the Promised Land in 1200 BC

  1. Joshua 3
  2. Joshua 4
  3. Joshua 5
  4. Joshua 6
  5. Joshua 7
  6. Joshua 8
  7. Joshua 9
  8. Joshua 10
  9. Joshua 11
  10. Joshua 22
  11. Joshua 23
  12. Joshua 24

Period of the Judges begins in 1130 BC

  1. Judges 1
  2. Judges 2
  3. Judges 3
  4. Judges 4
  5. Judges 6
  6. Judges 7
  7. Judges 8
  8. Judges 9
  9. Judges 13
  10. Judges 14
  11. Judges 15
  12. Judges 16
  13. Ruth 1
  14. Ruth 2
  15. Ruth 3
  16. Ruth 4
  17. I Samuel 1:1-2:2, 11
  18. I Samuel 2:12-3:18
  19. I Samuel 3:19-4:22
  20. I Samuel 5:1-6:16
  21. I Samuel 6:19-7:17

United monarchy begins in 1020 BC: Kings Saul, David and Solomon; Temple in Jerusalem built

  1. I Samuel 8:1-9:2
  2. I Samuel 9:14-10:1, 17-27; 11:12-15
  3. I Samuel 15
  4. I Samuel 16; Psalm 23
  5. I Samuel 17:1-31
  6. I Samuel 17:32-58
  7. I Samuel 18
  8. I Samuel 19
  9. I Samuel 20
  10. I Samuel 21; 23:14-18
  11. I Samuel 24:1-25:1
  12. I Samuel 25:2-44
  13. I Samuel 26
  14. I Samuel 28:3-25
  15. I Samuel 31; II Samuel 1:1-17
  16. II Samuel 2:1-11; 3:1-5
  17. II Samuel 4
  18. II Samuel 5
  19. II Samuel 6
  20. II Samuel 7
  21. II Samuel 11
  22. II Samuel 12:1-25
  23. II Samuel 13
  24. II Samuel 14:21-15:18
  25. II Sam 16:5-14; 18:6-17
  26. II Samuel 18:19-19:24
  27. II Samuel 24
  28. I Kings 1
  29. I Kings 2
  30. I Kings 3
  31. Proverbs 1:1-7; 10:1-32
  32. Wisdom 6
  33. Wisdom 7
  34. Wisdom 8
  35. Wisdom 9
  36. I Kings 5:9-31
  37. I Kings 6
  38. I Kings 8:1-26
  39. Hebrews 9
  40. I Kings 10:1-13, 23-25
  41. I Kings 11:1-13, 41-43

Divided Kingdom in 930 BC: Judah (capital Jerusalem) in south, Israel (capital Samaria) in north

  1. I Kings 12:1-20
  2. I Kings 16:29-17:24
  3. I Kings 18
  4. I Kings 19
  5. I Kings 21
  6. I Kings 22:1-28
  7. I Kings 22:29-40; II Kings 9:30-37
  8. I King 22:52-54; II King 1
  9. II Kings 2
  10. II Kings 4
  11. II Kings 5; 13:14-20
  12. Isaiah 6
  13. Isaiah 7
  14. Isaiah 8
  15. Isaiah 9
  16. Jonah 1-2
  17. Jonah 3-4
  18. Micah 3
  19. Hosea 4
  20. Amos 1:1-2; 2:6-16; 4:1-2

Assyrians (capital Nineveh) conquer Israel in 721 BC, the Israelites are deported

  1. II Kings 17
  2. Judith 8:4-10, 32-36; 10:1-19
  3. Judith 12
  4. Judith 13
  5. Judith 14
  6. Tobit 1:1-2:8
  7. Tobit 2:9-3:6
  8. Tobit 3:7-4:2
  9. Tobit 5
  10. Tobit 6:1-7:8
  11. Tobit 7:9-8:21
  12. Tobit 9
  13. Tobit 10
  14. Tobit 11
  15. Tobit 12
  16. II Kings 22:1-11; 23:4-8, 24-32
  17. Sirach 49
  18. Jeremiah 1
  19. Jeremiah 26:1-19
  20. Zephaniah 1

King Nebuchadnezzar of Chaldeans (capital Babylon) conquers Judah in 587; Jews exiled, Temple is destroyed

  1. II Kings 24
  2. II Kings 25
  3. Lamentations 1
  4. Nahum 1
  5. Baruch 1; 6:1-6
  6. Habakkuk 1:1-2:4
  7. Job 1
  8. Job 2
  9. Job 3
  10. Job 7
  11. Job 38
  12. Job 40
  13. Job 42
  14. Ezekiel 1:1-3; 3:17-27
  15. Ezek 24:15-27; 39:21-29
  16. Daniel 1
  17. Daniel 2
  18. Dan 3:1-25, 46-51, 91-92
  19. Daniel 5
  20. Daniel 6
  21. Daniel 13
  22. Esther 1
  23. Esther 2
  24. Esther 3
  25. Esther 4
  26. Esther 5
  27. Esther 6
  28. Esther 7:1-8:2
  29. Obadiah 8-21

King Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylonians, allows the Jews to return home and rebuild Temple in 538 BC

  1. Ezra 1
  2. Ezra 3
  3. Haggai 1
  4. Ezekiel 40
  5. Ezekiel 43
  6. Ezra 6
  7. Ezra 7
  8. Ezra 8
  9. Zechariah 14
  10. Nehemiah 1:1-2:10
  11. Nehemiah 2:11-20; 6:15-16; 11:1-2
  12. Nehemiah 8:1-9:3
  13. Joel 2:12-27
  14. Malachi 3
  15. Ecclesiastes 1
  16. Ecclesiastes 3

Alexander the Great conquers Persians, establishes Greek rule in Palestine in 332 BC; a successor to a portion of his empire, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, in 168 BC, abolishes Jewish religion, dedicates Temple to Zeus

  1. I Maccabees 1:1-28
  2. I Maccabees 1:29-63
  3. II Maccabees 4:7-50
  4. II Maccabees 5
  5. II Maccabees 6
  6. II Maccabees 7
  7. I Maccabees 2:1-28
  8. I Maccabees 2:29-70

Revolt of Judas Maccabeus against Greeks in 165 BC; his family rules Judea as priest-rulers until 37 BC; Romans completed conquest of the Greeks in 146 BC

  1. I Maccabees 3:1-26
  2. I Maccabees 3:27-59
  3. I Maccabees 4:1-35
  4. I Maccabees 4:36-61
  5. I Maccabees 6:1-17, 55-63
  6. II Maccabees 11
  7. II Maccabees 12
  8. I Maccabees 8
  9. I Maccabees 9:1-31
  10. I Maccabees 9:73-10:21
  11. I Maccabees 12:1-4, 39-53
  12. I Maccabee 13:1-10, 26-30
  13. I Maccabees 14:4-35
  14. I Maccabees 16

In 63 BC, Romans invade Judea; Herod the Great made king of the Jews by Roman Emperor, reigns 37-4 BC; Jesus born approximately 7-6 BC

  1. Luke 1:5-45, 56-66
  2. Matthew 1
  3. Matthew 2
  4. Luke 2

St John the Baptist announces the Messiah in 27 AD

  1. John 1
  2. Luke 3
  3. Matthew 4:1-5:12
  4. John 2
  5. John 6
  6. Matthew 6
  7. Matthew 7
  8. Matthew 16
  9. Matthew 22

St John the Baptist imprisoned in 29 AD, martyred by Herod Antipas, ruled 4 BC-39 AD

  1. Mark 6
  2. Mark 9
  3. Mark 11
  4. Mark 12
  5. Luke 22
  6. John 11
  7. John 12
  8. John 13
  9. I John 3
  10. Isaiah 42:1-4; 49:1-6; 50:4-11; 52:13-53:12

Jesus died in 30 AD; Pentecost and the birth of the church

  1. Luke 23
  2. Sirach 51:1-12; Wisdom 3:1-9
  3. Song of Songs 2:8-17; 8:6-7
  4. Luke 24
  5. John 21
  6. Acts 1
  7. Acts 2
  8. Acts 3
  9. Acts 4
  10. Acts 5
  11. Acts 6:1-15; 7:51-8:3
  12. Acts 8:4-40

Conversion of Paul in 37 AD

  1. Acts 9
  2. Acts 10
  3. Acts 11

King Herod Agrippa I ruled 41-44 AD

  1. Acts 12; Mark 14:51-52
  2. Acts 13
  3. Acts 14

Council of Jerusalem in 49 AD; Gospel reaches Rome

  1. Act 15; James 1:1; I Peter 1:1-2; 5:12-13
  2. Galatians 2:1-10; II Timothy 1:15-18
  3. Acts 16:1-15; I Timothy 1:1-20
  4. Acts 16:16-40
  5. Philippians 4
  6. Acts 17
  7. I Thessalonians 2:1-3:8
  8. Acts 18; I Corinthians 2:1-5
  9. Acts 19; Ephesians 3:1-6
  10. Acts 20; Titus 1:5
  11. Acts 21
  12. Acts 22
  13. Hebrews 10
  14. Acts 23
  15. Acts 24
  16. Philemon 1-25
  17. Acts 25
  18. Acts 26
  19. Acts 27
  20. Acts 28
  21. Romans 1:1-15

St. Peter martyred in Rome in 63 or 67 AD, St. Paul martyred in Rome in 67 AD; Romans destroy Temple and all Jerusalem in 70 AD

Jesus will return in glory at unknown date; until then salvation history includes lives of the saints

  1. Jude 1-25
  2. II Peter 3
  3. Daniel 12
  4. Ezekiel 37:1-14; Colossians 1:15-20
  5. Matthew 25
  6. Revelation 1
  7. Revelation 4
  8. Revelation 5
  9. Revelation 7
  10. Revelation 12
  11. Revelation 14
  12. Revelation 15
  13. Revelation 20
  14. Revelation 21
  15. Revelation 22

(Historical years are approximate. The BC/AD dating system was created by the monk Dionysius in 525 AD and retroactively enacted. It was based on the practice of counting years from the beginning of a king’s reign. He miscalculated the year of Jesus’ birth by about 6-7 years.)