February 17, 2006, 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, than 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.

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