Daily Reading for Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Reading 1, Romans 7:18-25

¹⁸ And really, I know of nothing good living in me -- in my natural self, that is -- for though the will to do what is good is in me, the power to do it is not:

¹⁹ the good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want -- that is what I do.

²⁰ But every time I do what I do not want to, then it is not myself acting, but the sin that lives in me.

²¹ So I find this rule: that for me, where I want to do nothing but good, evil is close at my side.

²² In my inmost self I dearly love God's law,

²³ but I see that acting on my body there is a different law which battles against the law in my mind. So I am brought to be a prisoner of that law of sin which lives inside my body.

²⁴ What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body doomed to death?

²⁵ God -- thanks be to him -- through Jesus Christ our Lord. So it is that I myself with my mind obey the law of God, but in my disordered nature I obey the law of sin.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:66, 68, 76, 77, 93, 94

⁶⁶ Teach me judgement and knowledge, for I rely on your commandments.

⁶⁸ You are generous and act generously, teach me your will.

⁷⁶ Your faithful love must be my consolation, as you have promised your servant.

⁷⁷ Treat me with tenderness and I shall live, for your Law is my delight.

⁹³ I shall never forget your precepts, for by them you have given me life.

⁹⁴ I am yours, save me, for I seek your precepts.