Thursday of the 27th week of Ordinary Time

1O senseless Galatians, who hath bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been set forth, crucified among you? 2This only would I learn of you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3Are you so foolish, that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh? 4Have you suffered so great things in vain? If it be yet in vain. 5He therefore who giveth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you; doth he do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of the faith?

69And hath raised up an horn of salvation to us, in the house of David his servant:

70As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets, who are from the beginning:

71Salvation from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us:

72To perform mercy to our fathers, and to remember his holy testament,

73The oath, which he swore to Abraham our father, that he would grant to us,

74That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear,

75In holiness and justice before him, all our days.

5And he said to them: Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go to him at midnight, and shall say to him: Friend, lend me three loaves, 6Because a friend of mine is come off his journey to me, and I have not what to set before him. 7And he from within should answer, and say: Trouble me not, the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth. 9And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. 10For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. 11And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12Or if he shall ask an egg, will he reach him a scorpion? 13If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from heaven give the good Spirit to them that ask him?