Friday of the twenty-ninth week of Ordinary Time

I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called, ²With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. ³Careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴One body and one Spirit; as you are called in one hope of your calling. ⁵One Lord, one faith, one baptism. ⁶One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in us all.

¹On the first day of the week, a psalm for David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof: the world, and all they that dwell therein. ²For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers. ³Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place? ⁴The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. ⁵He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. ⁶This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

℟ This is the generation of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.

And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth: ⁵⁵And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass. ⁵⁶You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time? ⁵⁷And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just? ⁵⁸And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison. ⁵⁹I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.