Daily Reading for Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Reading 1, Galatians 5:18-25

¹⁸ But when you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.

¹⁹ When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality,

²⁰ the worship of false gods and sorcery; antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements,

²¹ factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things. And about these, I tell you now as I have told you in the past, that people who behave in these ways will not inherit the kingdom of God.

²² On the other hand the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness,

²³ gentleness and self-control; no law can touch such things as these.

²⁴ All who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified self with all its passions and its desires.

²⁵ Since we are living by the Spirit, let our behaviour be guided by the Spirit

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6

¹ How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,

² but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.

³ Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.

⁴ How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind

⁶ For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.