FIRST READING: Romans 13: 8 - 10
8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. For he that loveth his
neighbour, hath fulfilled the law.
9
For Thou shalt not commit adultery: Thou shalt not kill: Thou shalt
not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness: Thou shalt not covet:
and if there be any other commandment, it is comprised in this word,
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
10
The love of our neighbour worketh no evil. Love therefore is the
fulfilling of the law.
1
Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight
exceedingly in his commandments.
2
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the righteous
shall be blessed.
4
To the righteous a light is risen up in darkness: he is merciful, and
compassionate and just.
5
Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order
his words with judgment:
9
He hath distributed, he hath given to the poor: his justice remaineth
for ever and ever: his horn shall be exalted in glory.
25
And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to
them:
26
If 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.
27
And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me, cannot be
my disciple.
28
For 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:
29
Lest, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish
it, all that see it begin to mock him,
30
Saying: This man began to build, and was not able to finish.
31
Or 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?
32
Or else, whilst the other is yet afar off, sending an embassy, he
desireth conditions of peace.
33
So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he
possesseth, cannot be my disciple.
