Reflecting on the Eighth
Sunday after the Epiphany
Year C

Daily Readings for Wednesday
February 28, 1962

Prayer

From your mouth, O God, 

come mercy and righteousness, 

and out of the abundance of your heart 

you have given us your Word made flesh, Jesus the Christ. 

Pour out your Spirit of integrity upon us, 

that all we say and do 

may befit a people made in your image 

and baptized into the dying and rising of your Son. Amen.

Psalm 1

The fruited tree or the chaff

 

Happy are those

who do not follow the advice of the wicked,

or take the path that sinners tread,

or sit in the seat of scoffers;

but their delight is in the law of the Lord,

and on his law they meditate day and night.

They are like trees

planted by streams of water,

which yield their fruit in its season,

and their leaves do not wither.

In all that they do, they prosper.

The wicked are not so,

but are like chaff that the wind drives away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,

nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;

for the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,

but the way of the wicked will perish.

 

Proverbs 5:1-23

The bad woman or the good wife

 

My child, be attentive to my wisdom;

incline your ear to my understanding,

so that you may hold on to prudence,

and your lips may guard knowledge.

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey,

and her speech is smoother than oil;

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,

sharp as a two-edged sword.

Her feet go down to death;

her steps follow the path to Sheol.

She does not keep straight to the path of life;

her ways wander, and she does not know it.

And now, my child, listen to me,

and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Keep your way far from her,

and do not go near the door of her house;

or you will give your honor to others,

and your years to the merciless,

and strangers will take their fill of your wealth,

and your labors will go to the house of an alien;

and at the end of your life you will groan,

when your flesh and body are consumed,

and you say, “Oh, how I hated discipline,

and my heart despised reproof!

I did not listen to the voice of my teachers

or incline my ear to my instructors.

Now I am at the point of utter ruin

in the public assembly.”

Drink water from your own cistern,

flowing water from your own well.

Should your springs be scattered abroad,

streams of water in the streets?

Let them be for yourself alone,

and not for sharing with strangers.

Let your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

a lovely deer, a graceful doe.

May her breasts satisfy you at all times;

may you be intoxicated always by her love.

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman

and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

For human ways are under the eyes of the Lord,

and he examines all their paths.

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,

and they are caught in the toils of their sin.

They die for lack of discipline,

and because of their great folly they are lost.

 

Luke 14:34-35

Good or bad salt

 

“Salt is good; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it away. Let anyone with ears to hear listen!”

 

 

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