The Scriptorium · The Procession · Day 2 of 365
Day 2: The Wound and the First Promise
Genesis 3-4 · Matthew 2-3 and Psalm 2 · Douay-Rheims
Station: The Stable
Today's reading
- Genesis 3
- Genesis 4
- Matthew 2
- Matthew 3
- Psalm 2
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On today's reading
Genesis 2:4-3:24 — The Wound and the First Promise
God did not make man the way He made everything else. Light, sea, stars — He spoke and they were. Man He knelt down for. "And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). Mud and the breath of God. You are both. You have always been both.
Genesis 4:1–5:32 — The Thing Crouching at the Door
Two brothers bring God an offering. Abel brings "of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat" — the firstborn, and the best cut off the top. Cain brings "of the fruits of the earth." The Lord has respect to Abel and to his offerings, and to Cain's he has none. Cain is "exceedingly angry," and his countenance falls.
Psalm 2 — Psalm 2 — Heaven Laughs, and Names a Son
Psalm 2 opens with a question, not a complaint: Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? (Ps 2:1). Not plotted evil. Plotted nothing.
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