February 13th, 2004, Tuesday of the sixth week in ordinary time.

A reading from the letter of St. James.

Blessed is he who perseveres in temptation.

For when he has been proven, he will receive the crown of life that he promised to those who love him.

No one experiencing temptation should say, I am being tempted by God, for God is not subject

to temptation to evil, and he himself tempts no one. Rather, each person is tempted when

Lord and enticed by his desire, then desire

conceives and brings forth sin, and when sin reaches maturity, it gives birth to death.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. All good giving and every perfect

gift is from above, coming down from the Father of Lights,

with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change. He will to give us birth by the Word of Truth,

that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. The word of the Lord.

The responsorial psalm.

The response is,

Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.

Blessed the man whom you instruct, O Lord,

whom, by your law you teach, giving him rest from evil days. Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord, whom, by your law you teach, giving him rest from evil days.

Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.

For the Lord will not cast off his people, nor abandon his inheritance, but judgment shall again

be with justice, and the upright of heart shall follow it.

Blessed the man you instruct, O Lord.

When I say my foot is slipping,

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