A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Thessalonians.

You recall brothers and sisters our toil and our drudgery,

working night and day in order not to burden any of you,

we proclaim to you the gospel of God. You are witnesses,

and so is God. How devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behave toward you believers.

As you know, we treated each of you as a father treats his children, exhorting and encouraging

you and insisting that you walk in a manner worthy of the God

who calls you into His kingdom and glory. For this reason, we too give thanks to God unceasingly.

Then receiving the Word of God from hearing us, you received it not as the Word of Men, but as it truly is the Word of God, which is now at work in you who believe. The Word of the Lord.

Thank you, Lord. You have searched me and you know me, Lord. You have searched me and you know me, Lord. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

Where can I go from your spirit?

From your presence, where can I flee?

If I go up to the heavens, you are there.

If I sink to the netherworld, you are present there.

You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

If I take the wings of the dawn, if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,

even there your hands shall guide me and your right hand hold me fast.

You have searched me and you know me, Lord.

If I say surely the darkness shall hide me and night shall be my light,

for you darkness itself is not dark, and tonight shines as the day.

You have searched me.

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

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