Daily Lectio, Sunday, November 1, 2026

Faith Daily Lectio Sunday, November 1, 2026

Sunday, November 1, 2026

All Saints' Day

LCMS Daily Lectionary (Lutheran Service Book)

Each reading below opens with a prayer (oratio), the reading for meditation (meditatio), and reflection/trial (tentatio). [in some practices include a reflection (contemplatio)]

Jesus rides humbly on a donkey colt down the road toward Jerusalem as the crowds spread their cloaks and palm branches before him and children lift palm fronds.

Gospel, Matthew 21:1-22

Aged Moses stands with his staff on the rocky summit of Mount Nebo, gazing over the Jordan valley, the palm groves of Jericho, and the promised land beneath a golden sky.

Old Testament, Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Melchizedek, the grey-bearded priest king of Salem in white robes and a gold circlet, offers bread and a golden cup at sunrise beside a smoking stone altar above his walled city.

Morning Psalm, Psalm 110

In a sunlit temple courtyard, worshippers praise the LORD with trumpets, harp, psaltery, cymbals, and a ram's horn as women dance with timbrels, children lift their hands, and doves fly overhead.

Morning Psalm, Psalm 150

A bearded man kneels on a hillside at dusk with open hands lifted in thanksgiving as golden light breaks through the clouds above a lamplit village.

Evening Psalm, Psalm 66

Jesus the Good Shepherd carries a lamb on his shoulders and holds his crook as his sheep graze in a green pasture beside still waters at sunset.

Evening Psalm, Psalm 23

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version.

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Sources

Lutheran Service Book (Concordia Publishing House)
Luther's Small Catechism (Concordia Publishing House)
The Large and Small Catechisms of Dr. Luther (LCMS)
About the Lutheran Daily Lectionary (lutherans.church)

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