Daily Reading for September 6 • The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

The ordinary workmen will come to the son of Joseph singing:

“Blessed be your coming,
O master of workers everywhere.
The imprint of your labor is seen in the ark,
And in the fashioning of the tabernacle
Of the congregation that was for a time only!
Our whole craft praises you, who are our eternal glory.
Make for us a yoke that is light, even easy,
for us to bear.
Establish that measure in us
in which there can be no falseness.”

From Hymns on the Nativity 6 by Ephrem the Syrian, quoted in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament II, Mark, edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1998).