Daily Reading for Wednesday, October 9th, 2024

Reading 1, Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14

¹ It was not until fourteen years had gone by that I travelled up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me too.

² My journey was inspired by a revelation and there, in a private session with the recognised leaders, I expounded the whole gospel that I preach to the gentiles, to make quite sure that the efforts I was making and had already made should not be fruitless.

⁷ On the contrary, once they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been entrusted to me, just as to Peter the gospel for the circumcised

⁸ (for he who empowered Peter's apostolate to the circumcision also empowered mine to the gentiles),

⁹ and when they acknowledged the grace that had been given to me, then James and Cephas and John, who were the ones recognised as pillars, offered their right hands to Barnabas and to me as a sign of partnership: we were to go to the gentiles and they to they to the circumcised.

¹⁰ They asked nothing more than that we should remember to help the poor, as indeed I was anxious to do in any case.

¹¹ However, when Cephas came to Antioch, then I did oppose him to his face since he was manifestly in the wrong.

¹² Before certain people from James came, he used to eat with gentiles; but as soon as these came, he backed out and kept apart from them, out of fear of the circumcised.

¹³ And the rest of the Jews put on the same act as he did, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their insincerity.

¹⁴ When I saw, though, that their behaviour was not true to the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of all of them, 'Since you, though you are a Jew, live like the gentiles and not like the Jews, how can you compel the gentiles to live like the Jews?'

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 117:1, 2

¹ Alleluia! Praise Yahweh, all nations, extol him, all peoples,

² for his faithful love is strong and his constancy never-ending.

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