"Let your peace come upon it" Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 10:7-15.

Book of Genesis 44:18-21.23b-29.45:1-5. 
Judah approached Joseph and said: “I beg you, my lord, let your servant speak earnestly to my lord, and do not become angry with your servant, for you are the equal of Pharaoh.
My lord asked your servants, 'Have you a father, or another brother?'
So we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a young brother, the child of his old age. This one's full brother is dead, and since he is the only one by that mother who is left, his father dotes on him.'
Then you told your servants, 'Bring him down to me that my eyes may look on him.'
But you told your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes back with you, you shall not come into my presence again.'
When we returned to your servant our father, we reported to him the words of my lord.
"Later, our father told us to come back and buy some food for the family.
So we reminded him, 'We cannot go down there; only if our youngest brother is with us can we go, for we may not see the man if our youngest brother is not with us.'
Then your servant our father said to us, 'As you know, my wife bore me two sons.
One of them, however, disappeared, and I had to conclude that he must have been torn to pieces by wild beasts; I have not seen him since.
If you now take this one away from me too, and some disaster befalls him, you will send my white head down to the nether world in grief.'
Joseph could no longer control himself in the presence of all his attendants, so he cried out, "Have everyone withdraw from me!" Thus no one else was about when he made himself known to his brothers.
But his sobs were so loud that the Egyptians heard him, and so the news reached Pharaoh's palace.
"I am Joseph," he said to his brothers. "Is my father still in good health?" But his brothers could give him no answer, so dumbfounded were they at him.
"Come closer to me," he told his brothers. When they had done so, he said: "I am your brother Joseph, whom you once sold into Egypt.
But now do not be distressed, and do not reproach yourselves for having sold me here. It was really for the sake of saving lives that God sent me here ahead of you."



Psalms 105(104):16-17.18-19.20-21. 
When the LORD called down a famine on the land
and ruined the crop that sustained them,
He sent a man before them,
Joseph, sold as a slave.

They had weighed him down with fetters,
and he was bound with chains,
Till his prediction came to pass
and the word of the LORD proved him true.

The king sent and released him,
the ruler of the peoples set him free.
He made him lord of his house
and ruler of all his possessions.




Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 10:7-15. 
Jesus said to his Apostles: “As you go, make this proclamation: 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.
Do not take gold or silver or copper for your belts;
no sack for the journey, or a second tunic, or sandals, or walking stick. The laborer deserves his keep.
Whatever town or village you enter, look for a worthy person in it, and stay there until you leave.
As you enter a house, wish it peace.
If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; if not, let your peace return to you."
Whoever will not receive you or listen to your words--go outside that house or town and shake the dust from your feet.
Amen, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."

"Let your peace come upon it"

The Holy Spirit warns us, saying: “Which of you desires life and takes delight in prosperous days? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it” (Ps 34[33],13-15). A child of peace ought to seek and follow peace; those who know and love the bond of charity ought to restrain their tongues from the evil of dissension. Among his divine commands and salutary instructions the Lord, now very near his Passion, added the following: “Peace I leave you, my peace I give you” (Jn 14,27). This is the inheritance he bequeathed us: all the gifts and rewards he promised us he made dependant on the conservation of peace. So if we are heirs of Christ, let us remain in the peace of Christ; if we are children of God, we ought to be peace-makers. “Blessed,” he said, “are the peace-makers, for they shall be called the children of God” (Mt 5,9). God’s children should be peace-makers, gentle in heart, simple in speech, harmonious in affection, clinging to one another faithfully in the bonds of unanimity.

This unanimity existed of old among the Apostles (Acts 4,32); thus the new assembly of believers, guards the commandments of the Lord and maintain charity. Scripture proves this in the following words: “The community of believers was of one heart and mind” (Acts 4,32).  And again: 'And all all devoted themselves with one accord to prayer with the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers” (1,14). In this way they prayed with efficacious prayers; they were able with confidence to obtain whatever they asked of God's mercy.