MASS READINGS, 14 June 2021, General Week 11 - MONDAY FIRST READING "We recommend ourselves as ministers of God" A Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (6, 1-10)

MASS READINGS, 14 June 2021, General Week 11 - MONDAY 

FIRST READING 

"We recommend ourselves as ministers of God" 

A Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (6, 1-10) 

Brothers, as co-operators with God, we again exhort you not to leave the grace received from him ineffective. For he says in the scripture, At the right time I heard you, in the day of salvation I helped you. Now is the auspicious time, here it is now the day of salvation.

So that our ministry is not exposed to criticism, we take care not to shock anyone in any way. On the contrary, in everything we recommend ourselves as ministers of God: by much endurance, in distress, difficulties, anguish, beatings, prison, riots, fatigue, lack of sleep. and food, by chastity, knowledge, patience and goodness, holiness of spirit and sincerity of love, by a word of truth, by a power which comes from God; we present ourselves with the weapons of justice for attack and defense, in glory and contempt, in bad and good reputation. We are called impostors, and we speak the truth; we are taken for strangers, and we are very well known; we are believed to be dying, and we are very much alive; we are punished, and we are not put to death; we are believed to be sad, and we are always happy; poor, and we make so many rich; deprived of everything, and we own everything. 

- Word of the Lord