Wednesday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation. He consoles us in all our tribulation, so that we too may be able to console those who are in any kind of distress, through the exhortation by which we also are being exhorted by God. For just as the Passion of Christ abounds in us, so also, through Christ, does our consolation abound. So, if we are in tribulation, it is for your exhortation and salvation, or if we are in consolation, it is for your consolation, or if we are exhorted, it is for your exhortation and salvation, which results in the patient endurance of the same passion which we also endure. So may our hope for you be made firm, knowing that, just as you are participants in the suffering, so also shall you be participants in the consolation.