Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

1Then the Lord said to Abram: “Depart from your land, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house, and come into the land that I will show you. 2And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you will be blessed. 3I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you, and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” 4And so Abram departed just as the Lord had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5And he took his wife Sarai, and Lot, the son of his brother, and all the substance which they had come to possess, and the lives which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed in order to go to the land of Canaan. And when they arrived in it, 6Abram passed through the land even to the place of Shechem, as far as the famous steep valley. Now at that time, the Canaanite was in the land. 7Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and he said to him, “To your offspring, I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8And passing on from there to a mountain, which was opposite the east of Bethel, he pitched his tent there, having Bethel to the west, and Hai on the east. He also built an altar there to the Lord, and he called upon his name. 9And Abram traveled, going out and continuing further on, toward the south.

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

13The Lord has looked down from heaven. He has seen all the sons of men.

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18Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him and on those who hope in his mercy,

19so as to rescue their souls from death and to feed them during famine.

20Our soul remains with the Lord. For he is our helper and protector.

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

1“Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. 2For with whatever judgment you judge, so shall you be judged; and with whatever measure you measure out, so shall it be measured back to you. 3And how can you see the splinter in your brother’s eye, and not see the board in your own eye? 4Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the splinter from your eye,’ while, behold, a board is in your own eye? 5Hypocrite, first remove the board from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.