Wednesday of the Sixth week in Ordinary Time

Letter of James

1,19-27.

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,
for the wrath of a man does not accomplish the righteousness of God.
Therefore, put away all filth and evil excess and humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.
Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves.
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror.
He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like.
But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Psalms

15(14),2-3ab.3c-4ab.5.

He who walks blamelessly and does justice;
who thinks the truth in his heart
and slanders not with his tongue.
Who harms not his fellow man,
nor takes up a reproach against his neighbor;
By whom the reprobate is despised,
while he honors those who fear the LORD.
Who lends not his money at usury
and accepts no bribe against the innocent.
One who does these things
shall never be disturbed.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark

8,22-26.

When Jesus and his disciples arrived at Bethsaida, people brought to him a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.
He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. Putting spittle on his eyes he laid his hands on him and asked, "Do you see anything?"
Looking up he replied, "I see people looking like trees and walking."
Then he laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly; his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly.
Then he sent him home and said, "Do not even go into the village."

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St. Onesimus(Disciple of St. Paul)

SAINT ONESIMUSDisciple of St. Paul(1st century) St. Onesimus was a Phrygian by birth and a slave to Philemon, a person of note in the city of Colossæ who was converted by St. Paul. Having robbed his master and being obliged to fly, Onesimus providentially met with St. Paul, who was then a prisoner for the Faith.St. Paul converted and baptized Onesimus, and sent him with a canonical letter of recommendation to Philemon. Philemon then pardoned Onesimus and gave him liberty. As a free man, Onesimus' first act was to return to St. Paul, with whom he proclaimed the Gospel.St. Paul made Onesimus, with Tychicus, the bearer of his Epistle to the Colossians, and afterwards, as St. Jerome and other Fathers witness, a preacher of the Gospel and a bishop. St. Onesimus received the martyr's crown around 95 A.D., during the reign of emperor Domitian in Rome.

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