20 FRIDAY, JUNE 2025
Friday of Week 11 in Ordinary Time
Liturgical colour: Green
Today’s Rosary: The Sorrowful Mysteries
FIRST READING
A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 11:18.21b-30
Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches.
Brethren: Since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast. Whatever any one dares to boast of – I am speaking as a fool – I also dare to boast of that. Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one – I am talking like a madman – with far greater labours, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death. Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I have been adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And, apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is made to fall, and I am not indignant? If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
V/ The word of the Lord.
R/ Thanks be to God.
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