Daily Reading for Saturday, September 7th, 2024

Reading 1, First Corinthians 4:9-15

⁹ For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on show right at the end, like men condemned to death: we have been exhibited as a spectacle to the whole universe, both angelic and human.

¹⁰ Here we are, fools for Christ's sake, while you are the clever ones in Christ; we are weak, while you are strong; you are honoured, while we are disgraced.

¹¹ To this day, we go short of food and drink and clothes, we are beaten up and we have no homes;

¹² we earn our living by labouring with our own hands; when we are cursed, we answer with a blessing; when we are hounded, we endure it passively;

¹³ when we are insulted, we give a courteous answer. We are treated even now as the dregs of the world, the very lowest scum.

¹⁴ I am writing all this not to make you ashamed but simply to remind you, as my dear children;

¹⁵ for even though you might have ten thousand slaves to look after you in Christ, you still have no more than one father, and it was I who fathered you in Christ Jesus, by the gospel.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 145:17-18, 19-20, 21

¹⁷ Upright in all that he does, Yahweh acts only in faithful love.

¹⁸ He is close to all who call upon him, all who call on him from the heart.

¹⁹ He fulfils the desires of all who fear him, he hears their cry and he saves them.

²⁰ Yahweh guards all who love him, but all the wicked he destroys.

²¹ My mouth shall always praise Yahweh, let every creature bless his holy name for ever and ever.

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