If indeed,
you all fulfil royal law, 
according to the Scripture,
‘Love your neighbour
as yourself’
you will do well.

And if
you show favouritism
you produce sin
– convicted under the law
  as transgressors. 

For whoever keeps the whole of the law
but stumbles at one point
has become guilty. 

For
the one who said::
‘You shall  not commit adultery.’
also said::
‘You shall  not murder.’
Now,
if you do not commit adultery
but murder
you become a transgressor of law. 

In this way
speak
and  act:
as
people about to be judged
by a law of freedom.

For the judgement
is merciless
for the one
who has not been merciful.
Mercy triumphs over judgement.

Grant, Lord,
that we may hold to you without parting,
worship you without wearying,
serve you without failing;
faithfully seek you,
happily find you,
and forever possess you,
the only God,blessed now and for ever.
Amen

St Anselm

My sisters and brothers, 
do not 
in favouring others
hold the faith
in our Lord Jesus Christ, (Lord) of glory,

for if someone comes
into your gathering,
wearing gold rings
clothed in finery
and also a poor person
clothed in rags
and if you all notice  
the one clothed in finery
and say:

‘You, sit (here) in a good place’. 

and to the poor person
you say
‘You, stand here
or sit beneath my feet.’

have you not become divided in yourselves, 
and have you not become judges
who deliver evil verdicts?

Listen, my beloved sisters and brothers, 
has not God did not chosen
the poor in the world
(to be) rich in faith
and heirs of the kingdom
which is promised to those who love him.?

But you have dishonoured the poor
not the rich,
they  oppress you all
and themselves drag you into the courts. 
Do they not blaspheme
the good name
        of the one 
that was ‘named’ over you?

Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.

Thomas More (c.1478-1535)

Therefore 
having stripped off
all dirty rags
and the surfeit of evil;
in humility
open yourself up to the word,
planted (in you)
which is able to save your souls. 

But be doers of the word
and not only hearers,
deceiving yourselves.

For if someone is a hearer of the word
and not a doer,
they are a person
who observes their own face in a mirror.
For they observe themselves
and go away
and immediately
have forgotten what they are like.

But the one who
looking into the perfect law of freedom
and staying with (it)
being not a hearer who forgets
but a doer (who works)
this one will be blessed,
in their deed.

If someone thinks they are religious,
while not bridling their tongue,
but deceives their heart,
such a person’s religion is meaningless.

Religion
pure and undefiled
before God
who is Father
is
to care for orphans and widows,
in their troubles,
(and) to keep oneself unsoiled by the world.

Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.

Thomas More (c.1478-1535)

Know (this), my beloved brothers and sisters:

– let everybody be quick to begin to listen,
slow to begin to speak, 
slow to anger.
For
the anger of humans
does not produce
the righteousness of God
(that he requires).

O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

(unknown)

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers and sisters. 

Every good gift
and every perfect gift 
is from above 
coming  down from the Father of (the) lights,
With whom there is no variation
or shadow caused by change.
Having willed it, he gave us birth by a word of truth,
that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.

Blessed is anyone who endures testing
because 
  when they have become proven
they will receive the crown,
which is life,
which has been promised
to those who love him

Let no-one
when they are tested say:
 ‘I am tempted by God.’
For God is unable to be tempted by bad things,
but he himself tempts no-one. 

But each person
is tempted by their own evil-desire
being dragged away
and enticed.

Then the evil-desire having conceived
gives birth to sin, 
and the sin having become fully grown
births death

. 

Lord God,
your feed us with the living bread from heaven.
You renew our faith
increase our hope
and strengthen our love.
Teach us to hunger for Christ
who is the true and living bread
and live by every word that comes from your mouth,
through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Let the brother/sister who is lowly rejoice in their high position.
But the rich person in their humiliation, 
because they will pass away like a wildflower. 

For the sun rises with its heat,
and drys up the wildflower
and the flower falls off,
and the beauty of its face is lost.

And so the rich person will fade away
while conducting their business.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

Living one day at a time,
Enjoying one moment at a time,
Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,
Taking, as Jesus did,
This sinful world as it is,
Not as I would have it,
Trusting that You will make all things right,
If I surrender to Your will,
So that I may be reasonably happy in this life,
And supremely happy with You forever in the next.

Amen.

But if anyone of you lacks wisdom,
let them ask
the giving God
(who gives) to all 
whole-heartedly
and not reproachfully
and it will be given to them.
but let them ask in faith
not with two opinons.
For someone with two opinions
is like the rough waters of the  sea
driven by the wind
and tossed about.

For let that one not expect
that they will receive 
anything from the Lord
– one who is double-minded 
– unstable in all their ways.

Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that thou art –
Thou my best thought, by day or by night;
Waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Jacob,
of God
and of the Lord Jesus Christ
a slave – 

to the twelve tribes
who are in the dispersion:

– greetings of joy!

Consider 
 it to be an occasion of  great joy
my brothers/sisters.
whenever  you fall into trials
    of various kinds
knowing
that testing of your faith
works out staying-power.

And let staying-power finish its work
so that you will be finished
and complete –
in lacking, nothing.

Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.

George Herbert