Courage is those who are losing hope and has chosen for them the lot of truth.

Return to him and give up sin. Pray to the Lord and make your offenses few. Turn again to the most high

and away from your sin. intensely what he loaves and know the justice and judgments of god

stand firm in the way set before you in prayer to the Most High God.

Who is the nether world can glorify the most high

in place of the living who offer their praise.

Dwell no longer in the error of the ungodly,

but offer your praise before death. No more can the dead

give praise than those who have never lived. You who are alive and well shall praise and glorify God

in His mercies. How great the mercy of the Lord, his forgiveness of those who return to him.

The word of the Lord.

Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

Blessed is he whose fault is taken away whose sin is covered,

blessed the man to whom the Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. Let the just

exalt and rejoice in the Lord. Then I acknowledge my sin to you. My guilt I covered not. I said,

I confess my faults to the Lord, and you took away the guilt of my sin. Let the just exalt

and rejoice in the Lord. For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress though deep waters overflow they shall not reach him let the just exalt and rejoice in the lord

you are my shelter from distress you will preserve me with glad cries cries of freedom, you will ring me round.

Let the just exalt and rejoice in the Lord.

My brothers and sisters, may our Lord be with you.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to St. Mark.

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