Have you been doing the readings lately? If you have, have you noticed that we’re being steeped in Isaiah? Or do those two sentences have you completely confounded? If so, here’s some context.

The Catholic Church has a schedule of scripture readings for the entire year, with an Old Testament passage, a Psalm, and a Gospel passage for each day. (Sundays get an extra New Testament reading.) This schedule is universal, meaning if you were to go to Mass on a given day, people going to Mass in any other place on earth on that same day would be hearing the same readings as you. Reading the daily readings is something many Catholics do, even when they can’t go to Mass. (Here and here are a couple of good places to get the daily readings.)