Friday of the 32nd week of Ordinary Time

4I was exceeding glad, that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father. 5And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing a new commandment to thee, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6And this is charity, that we walk according to his commandments. For this is the commandment, that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in the same: 7For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh: this is a seducer and an antichrist. 8Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward. 9Whosoever revolteth, and continueth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that continueth in the doctrine, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

1ALEPH. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

2Blessed are they who search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

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10With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.

11Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.

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17GIMEL. Give bountifully to thy servant, enliven me: and I shall keep thy words.

18Open thou my eyes: and I will consider the wondrous things of thy law.

26And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27They did eat and drink, they married wives, and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark: and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28Likewise as it came to pass, in the days of Lot: they did eat and drink, they bought and sold, they planted and built. 29And in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed. 31In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. 32Remember Lot's wife. 33Whosoever shall seek to save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose it, shall preserve it. 34I say to you: in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35Two women shall be grinding together: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left: two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be keft. 36They answering, say to him: Where, Lord? 37Who said to them: Wheresoever the body shall be, thither will the eagles also be gathered together.