Thursday of the 21st week of Ordinary Time

7Therefore we were comforted, brethren, in you, in all our necessity and tribulation, by your faith, 8Because now we live, if you stand in the Lord. 9For what thanks can we return to God for you, in all the joy wherewith we rejoice for you before our God, 10Night and day more abundantly praying that we may see your face, and may accomplish those things that are wanting to your faith? 11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. 12And may the Lord multiply you, and make you abound in charity towards one another, and towards all men: as we do also towards you, 13To confirm your hearts without blame, in holiness, before God and our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, with all his saints. Amen.

3Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

4For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

5Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

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12Can number thy wrath? So make thy right hand known: and men learned in heart, in wisdom.

13Return, O Lord, how long? and be entreated in favour of thy servants.

14We are filled in the morning with thy mercy: and we have rejoiced, and are delighted all our days.

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17And let the brightness of the Lord our God be upon us: and direct thou the works of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct.

42Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come. 43But know this ye, that if the goodman of the house knew at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open. 44Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. 45Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat in season. 46Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come he shall find so doing. 47Amen I say to you, he shall place him over all his goods. 48But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming: 49And shall begin to strike his fellow servants, and shall eat and drink with drunkards: 50The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not, and at an hour that he knoweth not: 51And shall separate him, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.