Day 1 Tobit 1.1-22 Tobit Is Taken Prisoner to Assyria
Day 2 Tobit 2.1—3.17 Tobit Goes Blind
Day 3 Tobit 4.1-21 Tobit Instructs His Son Tobias
Day 4 Tobit 5.1—6.18 The Angel Raphael Instructs Tobias
Day 5 Tobit 7.1-16 Tobias Gets Married
Day 6 Tobit 8.1-21 Tobias Chases Off a Demon
Day 7 Tobit 9.1—10.13 Tobias and His Wife Return Home
Day 8 Tobit 11.1-18 Tobit Regains His Sight
Day 9 Tobit 12.1-22 Raphael's Advice to Tobit and Tobias
Day 10 Tobit 13.1—14.15 Tobit Praises God
Day 11 Judith 1.1-16 Nebuchadnezzar Threatens His Enemies
Day 12 Judith 2.1-28 King Nebuchadnezzar Plans His Attack
Day 13 Judith 3.1—4.15 The Israelites Plan To Defend themselves
Day 14 Judith 5.1-24 General Holofernes Learns about the Israelites' Plan
Day 15 Judith 8.1-36 Judith Tells Her Plan to the Israelite Leaders
Day 16 Judith 9.1-14 Judith Prays for God's Help
Day 17 Judith 10.1-23 Judith Goes to the Assyrian Camp
Day 18 Judith 11.1-23 Judith Meets with Holofernes
Day 19 Judith 12.1-20 Holofernes Holds a Banquet
Day 20 Judith 13.1-20 Judith Kills Holofernes
Day 21 Judith 14.1—15.13 Judith Helps Israel Defeat Assyria
Day 22 Judith 16.1-25 Judith's Song of Praise
Day 23 Esther 14.1-19 Esther's Prayer To Save Her People (Appendix C.12-30 in some editions)
Day 24 Wisdom of Solomon 1.1-15 Justice Lives Forever
Day 25 Wisdom of Solomon 7.1-22 Solomon Praises Wisdom
Day 26 Wisdom of Solomon 10.1-21 Wisdom Helps Free the Israelites
Day 27 Sirach 1.1-30 Only God Gives Wisdom
Day 28 Sirach 16.24—17.24 God's Wisdom in Creation
Day 29 Sirach 44.1-15 Israel's Wise Leaders
Day 30 Letter of Jeremiah 1-73 Jeremiah Encourages the Exiles in Babylonia (Baruch 6.1-73 in some editions)
Day 31 Prayer of Azariah 1-68 The Three Hebrew Men Pray in the Furnace (Daniel Appendix A.1-68 in some editions)
Day 32 Susanna 1-64 Daniel Rescues Susanna (Daniel Appendix B.1-64 in some editions)
Day 33 1 Maccabees 1.1-28 Antiochus Epiphanes Robs the Jerusalem Temple
Day 34 1 Maccabees 1.29-64 Antiochus Attacks the Jews
Day 35 1 Maccabees 2.1-28 Mattathias Plans To Rebel Against the Greeks
Day 36 1 Maccabees 3.1-37 Judas Maccabeus Defeats the Greek Rulers
Day 37 1 Maccabees 3.38-60 Judas and His Brothers Plan To Save Jerusalem
Day 38 1 Maccabees 4.1-35 Judas Defeats the Armies around Jerusalem
Day 39 1 Maccabees 4.36-61 The Jerusalem Temple Is Rededicated
Day 40 4 Maccabees 1.1-35 Clear Thinking Keeps Us from Doing Wrong
Day 41 4 Maccabees 8.1-14 Seven Brave Brothers
Day 42 4 Maccabees 8.15—9.9 The Brothers Face Torture
Day 43 4 Maccabees 13.1-18 The Brothers Control Their Fear
Day 44 4 Maccabees 14.11—15.10 The Courage of the Brothers' Mother
Day 45 1 Esdras 3.1—4.63 Zerubbabel Defeats the Persian King at a Contest