Daily Reading for Saturday, September 24th, 2016

Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 11:9--12:8

⁹ Do not wrangle about something that does not concern you, do not interfere in the quarrels of sinners.

¹⁰ My child, do not take on a great amount of business; if you multiply your interests, you are bound to suffer for it; hurry as fast as you can, yet you will never arrive, nor will you escape by running away.

¹ If you mean to do a kindness, choose the right person, then your good deeds will not be wasted.

² Do good to someone devout, and you will be rewarded, if not by that person, then certainly by the Most High.

³ No good will come to one who persists in evil, or who refuses to give alms.

⁴ Give to the devout, do not go to the help of a sinner.

⁵ Do good to the humble, give nothing to the godless. Refuse him bread, do not give him any, it might make him stronger than you are; then you would be repaid evil twice over for all the good you had done him.

⁶ For the Most High himself detests sinners, and will repay the wicked with what they deserve.

⁷ Give to the good, and do not go to the help of a sinner.

⁸ In prosperity you cannot always tell a true friend, but in adversity you cannot mistake an enemy.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17

³ You bring human beings to the dust, by saying, 'Return, children of Adam.'

⁴ A thousand years are to you like a yesterday which has passed, like a watch of the night.

⁵ You flood them with sleep -- in the morning they will be like growing grass:

⁶ in the morning it is blossoming and growing, by evening it is withered and dry.

¹² Teach us to count up the days that are ours, and we shall come to the heart of wisdom.

¹³ Come back, Yahweh! How long must we wait? Take pity on your servants.

¹⁴ Each morning fill us with your faithful love, we shall sing and be happy all our days;

¹⁷ May the sweetness of the Lord be upon us, to confirm the work we have done!