04 July 2021, General Week 14th - Sunday SECOND READING "I will put my pride in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me" Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (12, 7-10)

04 July 2021, General Week 14th - Sunday 

SECOND READING 

"I will put my pride in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me" 

Reading from the second letter of Saint Paul the apostle to the Corinthians (12, 7-10) 

Brethren, the revelations that I have received are so extraordinary that, to keep from overestimating myself, I have received in my flesh a thorn, a messenger of Satan who is there to slap me, to keep me from overestimating myself. Three times I prayed to the Lord to take him away from me. But he declared to me: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power gives its full measure in weakness. It is therefore very willingly that I will rather put my pride in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may make its home in me. That is why I wholeheartedly accept for Christ the weaknesses, the insults, the constraints, the persecutions and the distressing situations. Because when I am weak, that is when I am strong. 

- Word of the Lord.

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🌿Greetings before the gospel 

Alleluia. Alleluia.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me:  

he sent me to bring the Good News to the poor. Alleluia.   (Lk 4:18) 

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