Ephesians 3:14-21
Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19
Luke 12:49-53
Ephesians 3:14-21
(14) By reason of this grace, I bend my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) from whom all paternity in heaven and on earth takes its name. (16) And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man, (17) so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity. (18) So may you be able to embrace, with all the saints, what is the width and length and height and depth (19) of the charity of Christ, and even be able to know that which surpasses all knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (20) Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us: (21) to him be glory, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout every generation, forever and ever. Amen.
Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 11-12, 18-19
(1) A Psalm of David. Exult in the Lord, you just ones; together praise the upright. (2) Confess to the Lord with stringed instruments; sing psalms to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings. (4) For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are in faith. (5) He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord. (11) But the counsel of the Lord remains for eternity, the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. (12) Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his inheritance. (18) Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and on those who hope in his mercy, (19) so as to rescue their souls from death and to feed them during famine.
Luke 12:49-53
(49) I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled? (50) And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished! (51) Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division. (52) For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three. (53) A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
