October 16th, 2004. Wednesday of the 28th week in ordinary time.

A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians, brothers and sisters, if you are guided

by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are obvious. Immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry,

sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury,

acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions, occasions of envy,

drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.

I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not enter the kingdom

of God.

In contrast, the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

Against such there is no law.

Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live in the spirit, let us also follow the spirit.

The Word of the Lord.

The responsorial psalm, the response is,

Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners,

nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on his law day and night.

Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.

He is like a tree planted near running water that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves never fade.

Whatever he does, prospers.

Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.

Not so, the wicked, not so.

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