LECTIO

Brethren, We are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.
Even unto this hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no fixed abode.
And we labour, working with our own hands. We are reviled: and we bless. We are persecuted: and we suffer it.
We are blasphemed: and we entreat. We are made as the refuse of this world, the offscouring of all, even until now.
I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children.

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Dearly beloved, I charge thee, before God and Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead, by His coming, and his kingdom :
Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine.
For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears:
And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables.
But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. Be sober.
For I am even now ready to be sacrificed: and the time of my dissolution is at hand.
I have fought a good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith.
As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that love his coming. Make haste to come to me quickly.

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Most dearly beloved: Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.
For this is the declaration which you have heard from the beginning, that you should love one another.
Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother’s just.
Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you.
We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.
In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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In those days: Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
And asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues: that if he found any men and women of this way, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
And as he went on his journey, it came to pass that he drew nigh to Damascus. And suddenly a light from heaven shined round about him.
And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.
And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?
And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the city; and there it shall be told thee what thou must do. Now the men who went in company with him stood amazed, hearing indeed a voice but seeing no man.
And Saul arose from the ground: and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. But they, leading him by the hands, brought him to Damascus.
And he was there three days without sight: and he did neither eat nor drink.
Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias. And the Lord said to him in a vision: Ananias, And he said: Behold I am here, Lord.
And the Lord said to him: Arise and go into the street that is called Strait and seek in the house of Judas, one named Saul of Tarsus. For behold he prayeth.
(And he saw a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands upon him, that he might receive his sight.)
But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem.
And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that invoke thy name.
And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
For I will shew him how great things he must suffer for my name’s sake.
And Ananias went his way and entered into the house. And laying his hands upon him, he said: Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent me, he that appeared to thee in the way as thou camest, that thou mayest receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost.
And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales: and he received his sight. And rising up, he was baptized.
And when he had taken meat, he was strengthened. And he was with the disciples that were at Damascus, for some days.
And immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the son of God.
And all that heard him were astonished and said: Is not this he who persecuted in Jerusalem those that called upon this name and came hither for that intent, that he might carry them bound to the chief priests?
But Saul increased much more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt at Damascus, affirming that this is the Christ.

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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for, when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life which God hath promised to them that love him.
Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man.
But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured.
Then, when concupiscence hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin. But sin, when it is completed, begetteth death.
Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.
Every best gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change nor shadow of alteration.
For of his own will hath he begotten us by the word of truth, that we might be some beginning of his creature.

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