Wisdom 2:23–3:9
Psalms 34:2-3, 16-19
Luke 17:7-10
Wisdom 2:23–3:9
(23) For God created man to be immortal, and he made him in the image of his own likeness (24) But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world (25) yet they imitate him, who are from his side (1) But the souls of the just are in the hand of God and no torment of death will touch them (2) In the eyes of the foolish, they seemed to die, and their departure was considered an affliction (3) and their going away from us, a banishment. Yet they are in peace (4) And though, in the sight of men, they suffered torments, their hope is full of immortality (5) Troubled in few things, in many things they will be well compensated, because God has tested them and found them worthy of himself (6) Like gold in the furnace, he has proved them, and as a holocaust victim, he has received them, and in the time of their visitatio (7) they will shine, and they will dash about like sparks among stubble (8) They will judge the nations and they will rule over the people, and their Lord will reign forever (9) Those who trust in him, will understand the truth, and those who are faithful in love will rest in him, because grace and peace is for his elect
Psalms 34:2-3, 16-19
(2) Take hold of weapons and a shield, and rise up in assistance to me (3) Bring forth the spear, and close in on those who persecute me. Say to my soul, “I am your salvation. (16) They have been scattered, yet they were unremorseful. They have tested me. They scoffed at me with scorn. They gnashed their teeth over me (17) Lord, when will you look down upon me? Restore my soul from before their malice, my only one from before the lions (18) I will confess to you in a great Church. I will praise you among a weighty people (19) May those who are my unjust adversaries not be glad over me: those who have hated me without cause, and who nod agreement with their eyes
Luke 17:7-10
(7) But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, would say to him, as he was returning from the field, ‘Come in immediately; sit down to eat, (8) and would not say to him: ‘Prepare my dinner; gird yourself and minister to me, while I eat and drink; and after these things, you shall eat and drink? (9) Would he be grateful to that servant, for doing what he commanded him to do (10) I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: ‘We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.’
Isaiah 61:1-3
(1) The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined (2) and so to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vindication of our God: to console all who are mourning (3) to take up the mourners of Zion and to give them a crown in place of ashes, an oil of joy in place of mourning, a cloak of praise in place of a spirit of grief. And there, they shall be called the strong ones of justice, the planting of the Lord, unto glorification
Psalms 89:2-5, 21-22, 25, 27
(2) Before the mountains became, or the land was formed along with the world: from ages past, even to all ages, you are God (3) And, lest man be turned aside in humiliation, you have said: Be converted, O sons of men (4) For a thousand years before your eyes are like the days of yesterday, which have passed by, and they are like a watch of the night (5) which was held for nothing: so their years shall be
Matthew 25:31-40
(31) But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty (32) And all the nations shall be gathered together before him. And he shall separate them from one another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats (33) And he shall station the sheep, indeed, on his right, but the goats on his left (34) Then the King shall say to those who will be on his right: ‘Come, you blessed of my Father. Possess the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world (35) For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in (36) naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me. (37) Then the just will answer him, saying: ‘Lord, when have we see you hungry, and fed you; thirsty, and given you drink (38) And when have we seen you a stranger, and taken you in? Or naked, and covered you (39) Or when did we see you sick, or in prison, and visit to you? (40) And in response, the King shall say to them, ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did this for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did it for me.
