Tuesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage. ²Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. ³And I testify again to every man circumcising himself, that he is a debtor to the whole law. ⁴You are made void of Christ, you who are justified in the law: you are fallen from grace. ⁵For we in spirit, by faith, wait for the hope of justice. ⁶For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by charity.

⁴¹VAU. Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord: thy salvation according to thy word. ⁴³And take not thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth: for in thy words have I hoped exceedingly. ⁴⁴So shall I always keep thy law, for ever and ever. ⁴⁵And I walked at large: because I have sought after thy commandments. ⁴⁷I meditated also on thy commandments, which I loved. ⁴⁸And I lifted up my hands to thy commandments, which I loved: and I was exercised in thy justifications.

℟ Let thy mercy also come upon me, O Lord.

And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee prayed him, that he would dine with him. And he going in, sat down to eat. ³⁸And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner. ³⁹And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity. ⁴⁰Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within? ⁴¹But yet that which remaineth, give alms; and behold, all things are clean unto you.