Second reading “You are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of the body” (1 Cor 12:12-14.27)

 Second reading

“You are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of the body” (1 Cor 12:12-14.27)

Reading from the first letter of Saint Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians

Brothers,

    let us consider a comparison:

Our body is one,

yet it has many members;

and all the members, though many,

are one body.

So it is with Christ.

    For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body , whether

Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; by one Spirit we were all quenched.     The human body is not made up of one member but of many.

    Now you are the body of Christ

, and each of

you is a member of the body.

    – Word of the Lord.