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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Year C

Blessed Are They Who Hope In the Lord (Ps. 1)

By Michael Keppel

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Verbatim text from Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

(40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked, nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on his law day and night.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

He is like a tree planted near running water, that yields its fruit in due season, and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does, prospers.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Not so the wicked, not so; they are like chaff which the wind drives away. For the LORD watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.

Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

The English translation of the Psalm Response(s) from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997,
International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.

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