Wednesday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, ²¹Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. ²²But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, ²³Mildness, faith, modesty, continency, chastity. Against such there is no law. ²⁴And they that are Christ’s, have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences. ²⁵If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

¹Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence. ²But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whatsoever he shall do shall prosper. ⁴Not so the wicked, not so: but like the dust, which the wind driveth from the face of the earth. ⁶For the Lord knoweth the way of the just: and the way of the wicked shall perish.

℟ He that followeth thee, O Lord, shall have the light of life.

But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb; and pass over judgment, and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. ⁴³Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace. ⁴⁴Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not, and men that walk over are not aware. ⁴⁵And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also. ⁴⁶But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.