Wisdom 11:22 – 12:2 Year C 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary #153
A reading from the Book of Wisdom
Before the Lord the whole universe is as a grain
from a balance
or a drop of morning dew come down upon the earth.
But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things,
and you overlook people’s sins that they may repent.
For you love all things that are
and loathe nothing that you have made;
for what you hated, you would not have fashioned.
And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it;
or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you?
But you spare all things, because they are yours,
O Lord and lover of souls,
for your imperishable spirit is in all things!
Therefore you rebuke offenders little by little,
warn them and remind them of the sins
they are committing,
That they may abandon their wickedness and believe
in you, O Lord!
The word of the Lord.