Office of Readings/Matins - Saturday, 11th Week Ordinary Time / Saints John Fisher, Bishop, and Thomas More, Martyrs Scripture reading: Judges 16 - After this, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Vale of Sorek; she was called Delilah. The chiefs of the Philistines visited her and said to her, ‘Cajole him and find out where his great strength comes from, and how we can master him and bind him and reduce him to helplessness. In return we will each give you eleven hundred silver shekels.’ Delilah said to Samson, ‘Please tell me where your great strength comes from, and what would be needed to bind you and tame you.’ Patristic Reading: From a letter written in prison to his daughter, Margaret, by Saint Thomas More - With good hope I shall commit myself wholly to God. Although I know well, Margaret, that because of my past wickedness I deserve to be abandoned by God, I cannot but trust in his merciful goodness. His grace has strengthened me until now and made me content to lose goods, land, and life as well, rather than to swear against my conscience. God’s grace has given the king a gracious frame of mind toward me, so that as yet he has taken from me nothing but my liberty. In doing this His Majesty has done me such great good with respect to spiritual profit that I trust that among all the great benefits he has heaped so abundantly upon me I count my imprisonment the very greatest. I cannot, therefore, mistrust the grace of God. Either he shall keep the king in that gracious frame of mind to continue to do me no harm, or else, if it be his pleasure that for my other sins I suffer in this case as I shall not deserve, then his grace shall give me the strength to bear it patiently, and perhaps even gladly. universalis/20130622/readings.2.htm
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