Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but much more now in my absence,) with fear and trembling work out your salvation. ¹³For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will. ¹⁴And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations; ¹⁵That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world. ¹⁶Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ, because I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain. ¹⁷Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all. ¹⁸And for the selfsame thing do you also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

¹The psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the protector of my life: of whom shall I be afraid? ⁴One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. That I may see the delight of the Lord, and may visit his temple. ¹³I believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living. ¹⁴Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

℟ The Lord is my light and my salvation.

And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to them: ²⁶If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. ²⁷And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. ²⁸For which of you having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down, and reckon the charges that are necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it: ²⁹Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that see it begin to mock him, ³⁰Saying: This man began to build, and was not able to finish. ³¹Or what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down, and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? ³²Or else, whilst the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he desireth conditions of peace. ³³So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple.