{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"catholic-bible-reading-checklist-douay-rheims-liturgical-year-printable-pdf","title":"Catholic Bible Reading Checklist — Douay-Rheims Liturgical Year, Printable PDF","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor Catholics who want to pray the Bible, not just read it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eMost Bible-in-a-year plans were built by Protestants, for Protestants — chronological timelines with no Deuterocanon, modern translations, and no connection to the liturgical life of the Church. \u003ci\u003eA Year of Grace\u003c\/i\u003e was designed from the ground up for Catholics who pray the traditional liturgy and read the Douay-Rheims.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe organizing principle is the Church's own calendar.\u003c\/b\u003e Every book of the Catholic canon is placed in the season the Church has always associated with it — not because of a timeline, but because of what the Church is \u003ci\u003edoing\u003c\/i\u003e in that season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eAdvent\u003c\/i\u003e waits with Isaias, Micheas, Zacharias, and the Apocalypse. The year opens with the prophets crying out for the coming King and ends, on Christmas Eve, with the last verse of Scripture: \u003ci\u003eCome, Lord Jesus.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eChristmastide\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates the Word made flesh: the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew, the prologue of John, the Book of Wisdom, and the letters of Saint John.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Time I\u003c\/i\u003e returns to the beginnings — Genesis and Ecclesiasticus — as the Church settles into the mystery of the Incarnation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eLent\u003c\/i\u003e goes into the desert with Exodus, Deuteronomy, and Jeremias. The seven penitential psalms are added weekly, ending with Psalm 142 on Good Friday.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eHoly Week\u003c\/i\u003e reads Saint Mark's Passion alongside the Servant Songs of Isaias and the Lamentations of the Tenebrae office — exactly the texts the Church chants in those sacred days.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eEastertide\u003c\/i\u003e runs from the empty tomb through the Gospel of John, the Acts of the Apostles, and the great epistles of new life — from Mark 16 on Easter Sunday to Acts 28 on Pentecost.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e— \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Time II\u003c\/i\u003e carries the long story of the People of God: Leviticus through Machabees, the wisdom books, the remaining prophets, and the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The year ends on the feast of \u003ci\u003eChrist the King\u003c\/i\u003e with the Letter to the Hebrews.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Psalter is prayed in course.\u003c\/b\u003e One psalm every day, straight through from Psalm 1 to Psalm 150 in Vulgate numbering — twice over the year, the way the Roman Breviary prays the Psalter in the Divine Office. Psalm 118 is prayed in eleven days of two stanzas each. Longer psalms are split into two days.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you receive:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"ul1\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eA beautifully formatted, printable PDF — 8 pages, landscape, ready to tuck inside your Bible or place on your prayer desk\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eColor-coded by liturgical season (Advent purple, Lent violet, Holy Week crimson, Easter gold, Ordinary Time green)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eDouay-Rheims book names throughout (Isaias, Jeremias, Josue, Paralipomenon, Machabees, Apocalypse)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"li2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eVulgate Psalm numbering as printed in your Douay-Rheims\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn original work\u003c\/b\u003e, built on the public-domain Douay-Rheims text and the Church's ancient lectionary tradition. 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