Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

12:31But be zealous for the better charisms. And I reveal to you a yet more excellent way.

13:1If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal. 2And if I have prophecy, and learn every mystery, and obtain all knowledge, and possess all faith, so that I could move mountains, yet not have charity, then I am nothing. 3And if I distribute all my goods in order to feed the poor, and if I hand over my body to be burned, yet not have charity, it offers me nothing. 4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. 5Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. 6Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. 7Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all. 8Charity is never torn away, even if prophecies pass away, or languages cease, or knowledge is destroyed. 9For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part. 10But when the perfect arrives, the imperfect passes away. 11When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood like a child, I thought like a child. But when I became a man, I put aside the things of a child. 12Now we see through a glass darkly. But then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am known. 13But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

2Confess to the Lord with stringed instruments; sing psalms to him with the psaltery, the instrument of ten strings.

3Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation.

4For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his works are in faith.

5He loves mercy and judgment. The earth is full of the mercy of the Lord.

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12Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his inheritance.

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22Let your mercy be upon us, O Lord, just as we have hoped in you.

31Then the Lord said: “Therefore, to what shall I compare the men of this generation? And to what are they similar? 32They are like children sitting in the marketplace, talking with one another, and saying: ‘We sang to you, and you did not dance. We lamented, and you did not weep.’ 33For John the Baptist came, neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 34The Son of man came, eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Behold, a voracious man and a drinker of wine, a friend of tax collectors and of sinners.’ 35But wisdom is justified by all her children.”