- Behold, we are now going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death. Then they will hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and on the third day he will be raised to life.
- God said, “Let there be light!” And there was light.
- You shall serve the Lord, your God. He will bless your bread and water and take away sickness from your midst.
- Do the things that you have learned, received, and heard from me and that you saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.
- However, those who want riches fall into temptations and are trapped into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- And this is the testimony:
God gave us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son. - Speak out and pronounce righteous judgments;
defend the rights of the wretched and the poor. - For from him and through him and for him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
- Jesus answered him,
“Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him
and make our abode with him.” - And I say to you: You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of the netherworld will not prevail against it.
- In view of all this, you should make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with piety, and piety with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
- And the shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, just as they had been told.
- Therefore, now I, Nebuchadnezzar,
praise and exalt and glorify
the King of heaven.
For all of his works are right,
and all of his ways are just.
Also, he is able to humble
all those who follow the path of pride. - Then Job arose, tore his cloak, and shaved his head. He threw himself prostrate on the ground and said:
“Naked I emerged from my mother’s womb,
and naked I will return.
The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name of the Lord.” - And anyone who does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
- While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after he had pronounced the blessing, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take this and eat; this is my body.”
- For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
- Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and undefiled is this: to come to the aid of orphans and widows in their hardships and to keep oneself untarnished by the world.
- They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers.
- And God said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the wild animals and reptiles that crawl upon the earth.”
- And now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.
- The prudent man perceives danger and seeks shelter,
while the simple continue forward and pay the penalty. - I sought the Lord, and he answered me;
he set me free from all my fears. - For:
“If anyone wishes to love life
and to experience good days,
he must restrain his tongue from evil
and his lips from deceitful speech.
He must turn away from evil and do good,
seek peace and pursue it.” - For there is one God,
and there is one mediator between God and man,
Christ Jesus, himself a man.
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