MASS READINGS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021, General Week 11 FIRST READING "My daily concern, the concern of all the Churches" A Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (11, 18.21b-30)

MASS READINGS, FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021, General Week 11 

FIRST READING 

"My daily concern, the concern of all the Churches" 

A Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (11, 18.21b-30) 

Brothers, since so many others boast in the human way; well, I'll brag too. If some are daring - I speak in a fit of madness - I too have daring. Are they Hebrews? Me too. Are they Israelites? Me too. Are they descendants of Abraham? Me too. Are they ministers of Christ? Well - I am going to say madness - I am more so: in fatigue, much more; in prisons, much more; under the blows, much more; in danger of death, very often. Five times I received the thirty-nine lashes from the Jews; three times, I suffered the caning; once I was stoned; three times, I was shipwrecked and I was lost twenty-four hours in the open sea. Often on foot on the roads, with the dangers of rivers, the dangers of bandits, the dangers from my brethren, the dangers from the Gentiles, the dangers of the city, the dangers of the wilderness, the dangers of the sea, the dangers of false brothers. I have known fatigue and pain, often lack of sleep, hunger and thirst, often lack of food, cold and lack of clothes, not to mention everything else: my daily concern, the concern of all the churches. Who then falters, without my sharing his weakness? Who comes to fall without it burning me? If it is necessary to brag, I will brag about what makes me weak. often the lack of food, the cold and the lack of clothes, without counting everything else: my daily concern, the concern of all the Churches. Who then falters, without my sharing his weakness? Who comes to fall without it burning me? If it is necessary to brag, I will brag about what makes me weak. often the lack of food, the cold and the lack of clothes, without counting everything else: my daily concern, the concern of all the Churches. Who then falters, without my sharing his weakness? Who comes to fall without it burning me? If it is necessary to brag, I will brag about what makes me weak.  

- Word of the Lord.

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