First reading
Sirach 27:4-7
Quhen a sye is shakyn, the refuse aperis; swa a persoun’s filth in his thochts. The kiln tests the potter’s vessels; alswa the test of a persoun is in his resaoning. The frute discloses the cultivatioun of a tre; swa the expression of a thochte discloses the cultivatioun of a persoun’s mynd.
Do nocht prais a man afore ye heare him resaon, for this is the test of folk.
Responsorial Psalm 92(91): 2-3. 13-14. 15-16. (resp. cf. 2a)
It is guid to geve thanks to thee, O Lord.
It is guid to geve thanks to the Lord,
to mak music to thy name, O Most Hie,
to proclame thy loving mercy in the morn,
and thy truth in the watches of the nicht.
It is guid to geve thanks to thee, O Lord.
The just ane sall flourishe lyk the palme tree,
and grow lyk a Lebanon cedre.
Planted in the hous of the Lord,
they sall flourishe in the courts of our God.
It is guid to geve thanks to thee, O Lord.
Still bearing frute quhen they are auld,
still full of sap, still grene,
to proclame that the Lord is upricht.
In him, my rock, there is na wrang.
It is guid to geve thanks to thee, O Lord.
Second reading 1 Corinthians 15:54-58
Brethren and Sistren: Quhen the perishable puttis on the imperishable, and the mortal puttis on immortality, than sall cum to pass the saying that is writtin: ‘Deid is swallowit up in victorie.’ ‘O deid, quhair is thy victorie? O deid, quhair is thy sting?’
The sting of deid is syn, and the pouer of syn is the law. Bot thanks be to God, wha gevis us the victorie throw our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren and sistren, be stedfast, immoveable, ay abounding in the werk of the Lord, knawing that in the Lord your labour is nocht in vain.
Luke 6:39-45
[Jesus spak a parable to his disciples:] “May the blin’ lead the blin’? Wull they no baith fa’ intil a sheugh? A disciple is no aboon his Maister; but, whan perfetit, he sal be as his Maister. But why div ye tak tent o’ the mote i’ yere brither’s ee, but consider-na the baulk that’s i’ yere ain ee? Or hoo can ye say till yere brither, 'Brither, lat me pu' oot the mote that is in yere ee,’ whan ye yersel see-na the baulk that is in yere ain ee? Dissembler! cast oot first the baulk oot o’ yere ain ee, and than may ye see weel to pu’ oot the mote that is in yere brither’s ee.
“For a soun’ tree brings-na forth feckless frute, nor dis a feckless tree bring forth gude frute. For ilka tree may be kent by its ain frute: for folk gaither-na figs o’ thistles, nor o’ a bramble gaither they grapes. The gude man, oot o’ the gude gear o’ his ain heart, brings oot what is gude ; and the ill man, oot o’ the ill, what is ill; for, oot o’ the owercome o’ his heart his mou’ speaks."
[From The New Testament in Braid Scots William Wye Smith (1904) here]
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