A reading letter of St. Paul to the Romans.

Brothers and sisters, if God is for us, who can be against us?

He did not spare his own son, but handed him over for us all.

How will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones?

It is God who acquits us, who will condemn.

It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God,

who indeed intercedes for us.

What will separate us from the love of Christ?

Will anguish and distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword?

As it is written, for your sake we are being slaying all day. We are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these

things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us, for I am convinced that neither

death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things,

nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature

will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks, God.

Save me, O Lord, and your mercy.

Save me, O Lord, and your mercy. Save me, O Lord, in your mercy.

Do you, O God, my Lord, deal kindly with me for your namesake,

and your generous mercy rescue me, for I am wretched and poor,

and my heart is pierced within me.

Save me, O Lord, in your mercy.

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