Monday of the thirtieth week of Ordinary Time

And be ye kind one to another; merciful, forgiving one another, even as God hath forgiven you in Christ.

¹Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children; ²And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness. ³But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints: ⁴Or obscenity, or foolish talking, or scurrility, which is to no purpose; but rather giving of thanks. ⁵For know you this and understand, that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person (which is a serving of idols), hath inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. ⁷Be ye not therefore partakers with them. ⁸For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

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.

℟ Be ye followers of God, as most dear children.

And he was teaching in their synagogue on their sabbath. ¹¹And behold there was a woman, who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years: and she was bowed together, neither could she look upwards at all. ¹²Whom when Jesus saw, he called her unto him, and said to her: Woman, thou art delivered from thy infirmity. ¹³And he laid his hands upon her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. ¹⁴And the ruler of the synagogue (being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath) answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come, and be healed; and not on the sabbath day. ¹⁵And the Lord answering him, said: Ye hypocrites, doth not every one of you, on the sabbath day, loose his ox or his ass from the manger, and lead them to water? ¹⁶And ought not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day? ¹⁷And when he said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the things that were gloriously done by him.