Habakkuk 1: 2- 3, 2: 2- 4
| 1:2 | How long, O Lord, shall I cry out, and you will not heed? Shall I shout to you while suffering violence, and you will not save? |
| 1:3 | Why have you revealed to me iniquity and hardship, to see plunder and injustice opposite me? And there has been judgment, but the opposition is more powerful. |
| 2:2 | And the Lord responded to me and said: Write the vision and explain it on tablets, so that he who reads it may run through it. |
| 2:3 | For as yet the vision is far off, and it will appear in the end, and it will not lie. If it expresses any delay, wait for it. For it is arriving and it will arrive, and it will not be hindered. |
| 2:4 | Behold, he who is unbelieving, his soul will not be right within himself; but he who is just shall live in his faith. |
Second Timothy 1: 6- 8, 13- 14
| 1:6 | Because of this, I admonish you to revive the grace of God, which is in you by the imposition of my hands. |
| 1:7 | For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint. |
| 1:8 | And so, do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, his prisoner. Instead, collaborate with the Gospel in accord with the virtue of God, |
| 1:13 | Hold to the kind of sound words that you have heard from me in the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. |
| 1:14 | Guard the good entrusted to you through the Holy Spirit, who lives within us. |
Luke 17: 5- 10
| 17:5 | And the Apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” |
| 17:6 | But the Lord said: “If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you may say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be transplanted into the sea.’ And it would obey you. |
| 17:7 | But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, would say to him, as he was returning from the field, ‘Come in immediately; sit down to eat,’ |
| 17:8 | and would not say to him: ‘Prepare my dinner; gird yourself and minister to me, while I eat and drink; and after these things, you shall eat and drink?’ |
| 17:9 | Would he be grateful to that servant, for doing what he commanded him to do? |
| 17:10 | I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: ‘We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.’ ” |