Daily Reading for Thursday, February 27th, 2025

Reading 1, Sirach 5:1-8

¹ Do not put your confidence in your money or say, 'With this I am self-sufficient.'

² Do not be led by your appetites and energy to follow the passions of your heart.

³ And do not say, 'Who has authority over me?' for the Lord will certainly give you your deserts.

⁴ Do not say, 'I have sinned, but what harm has befallen me?' for the Lord's forbearance is long.

⁵ Do not be so sure of forgiveness that you add sin to sin.

⁶ And do not say, 'His compassion is great, he will forgive me my many sins'; for with him are both mercy and retribution, and his anger does not pass from sinners.

⁷ Do not delay your return to the Lord, do not put it off day after day; for suddenly the Lord's wrath will blaze out, and on the day of punishment you will be utterly destroyed.

⁸ Do not set your heart on ill-gotten gains, they will be of no use to you on the day of disaster.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3-4, 6

¹ How blessed is anyone who rejects the advice of the wicked and does not take a stand in the path that sinners tread, nor a seat in company with cynics,

² but who delights in the law of Yahweh and murmurs his law day and night.

³ Such a one is like a tree planted near streams; it bears fruit in season and its leaves never wither, and every project succeeds.

⁴ How different the wicked, how different! Just like chaff blown around by the wind

⁶ For Yahweh watches over the path of the upright, but the path of the wicked is doomed.