Friday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

Be imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who are walking similarly, just as you have seen by our example. For many persons, about whom I have often told you (and now tell you, weeping,) are walking as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction; their god is their belly; and their glory is in their shame: for they are immersed in earthly things. But our way of life is in heaven. And from heaven, too, we await the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform the body of our lowliness, according to the form of the body of his glory, by means of that power by which he is even able to subject all things to himself. And so, my most beloved and most desired brothers, my joy and my crown: stand firm in this way, in the Lord, most beloved.