| 'Who Is Your Mother?' | ||||||||
| From the reading of the Epistle for the Feast of St. John, the Beloved Disciple | ||||||||
| He who fears God will do good: and he who possesses justice shall lay hold on Her, and She will meet him as an honorable Mother ... . With the Bread of Life and understanding, She shall feed him and give him the water of wholesome Wisdom to drink: and She shall be made strong in him, and he shall not be moved: and She shall hold him fast, and he shall not be confounded: and She shall exalt him among his neighbors and in the midst of the Church She shall open his mouth, and shall fill him with the Spirit of Wisdom and understanding, and shall clothe him with a robe of glory. She shall heap upon him a treasure of joy and gladness, and shall cause him to inherit an everlasting name! |
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| Ecclesiasticus 15:1-6 | ||||||||