Dominica VII post Pentecosten

O clap your hands, all ye nations: shout unto God with the voice of joy.

O God, whose providence faileth not in its designs: we humbly beseech Thee to put away from us all harmful things, and to give us all things which be profitable for us. Through our Lord.

Brethren: I speak a human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice unto sanctification. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from justice. What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death. But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting.

Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Come ye to Him and be enlightened: and your faces shall not be confounded.

At that time: Jesus said to His disciples: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree bring forth good fruit.

May Thy healing work, O Lord, both mercifully free us from our perversities and lead us to the things that are right. Through our Lord.