Friday of the twenty-eighth week of Ordinary Time

In whom we also are called by lot, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things according to the counsel of his will. ¹²That we may be unto the praise of his glory, we who before hoped Christ: ¹³In whom you also, after you had heard the word of truth, (the gospel of your salvation;) in whom also believing, you were signed with the holy Spirit of promise, ¹⁴Who is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the redemption of acquisition, unto the praise of his glory.

¹A psalm for David. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye just: praise becometh the upright. ²Give praise to the Lord on the harp; sing to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. ⁴For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done with faithfulness. ⁵He loveth mercy and judgment; the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. ¹²Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord: the people whom he hath chosen for his inheritance. ¹³The Lord hath looked from heaven: he hath beheld all the sons of men.

℟ Blessed is the people whom the Lord hath chosen for his inheritance.

And when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples: Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. ²For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed: nor hidden, that shall not be known. ³For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness, shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers, shall be preached on the housetops. ⁴And I say to you, my friends: Be not afraid of them who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. ⁵But I will shew you whom you shall fear: fear ye him, who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear him. ⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? ⁷Yea, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: you are of more value than many sparrows.