MASS READINGS, 12 June 2021, General Week 10 - Saturday FIRST READING "He who has not known sin, God has identified him with sin for us" A Reading of the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians 5: 14-21

MASS READINGS, 12 June 2021, General Week 10 - Saturday 

FIRST READING 

"He who has not known sin, God has identified him with sin for us" 

A Reading of the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians 5: 14-21 

Brothers,

    the love of Christ seizes us

when we think that one has died for all,

and that therefore all have passed through death.

    For Christ died for all,

so that the living no longer have their lives centered on themselves,

but on him, who died and rose for them.

    Now we no longer look at anyone

in a simply human way:

if we have known Christ in this way,

now we no longer know him in this way .

    So if anyone is in Christ,

he is a new creation.

The old world is gone,

a new world has already been born

    All this comes from God:

he reconciled us to him through Christ,

and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

    For it is indeed God

who, in Christ, reconciled the world with him:

he did not take account of faults,

and he placed in us the word of reconciliation.

    We are therefore Christ's ambassadors,

and through us it is God himself who launches an appeal:

we ask it in the name of Christ,

let yourselves be reconciled with God.

    He who has not known sin,

God has identified him with sin for us,

so that in him we may become righteous

from the very righteousness of God. 

- Word of the Lord.

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