De Parábolis Salomónis
Prov 31:10-17
10 Mulíerem fortem quis invéniet? procul et de últimis fínibus prétium ejus.
11 Confídit in ea cor viri sui, et spóliis non indigébit.
12 Reddet ei bonum, et non malum, ómnibus diébus vitæ suæ.
13 Quæsívit lanam et linum, et operáta est consília mánuum suárum.
14 Facta est quasi navis institóris, de longe portans panem suum.
15 Et de nocte surréxit, dedítque prædam domésticis suis, et cibária ancíllis suis.
16 Considerávit agrum, et emit eum; de fructu mánuum suárum plantávit víneam.
17 Accínxit fortitúdine lumbos suos, et roborávit bráchium suum.
Lesson from the first letter of St Paul the Apostle to Timothy
1 Tim. 5:3-10.
Dearly beloved: Honor widows, that are widows indeed. But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house, and to make a return of duty to her parents: for this is acceptable before God. But she that is a widow indeed and desolate, let her trust in God, and continue in prayers and supplications night and day. For she that liveth in pleasures, is dead while she is living. And this give in charge, that they may be blameless. But if any man have not care of his own, and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. Let a widow be chosen of no less than threescore years of age, who hath been the wife of one husband, having testimony for her good words, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbor, if she have washed the saints’ feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.