Daily Reading for Friday, September 18th, 2020

Reading 1, First Corinthians 15:12-20

¹² Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you be saying that there is no resurrection of the dead?

¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot have been raised either,

¹⁴ and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without substance, and so is your faith.

¹⁵ What is more, we have proved to be false witnesses to God, for testifying against God that he raised Christ to life when he did not raise him -- if it is true that the dead are not raised.

¹⁶ For, if the dead are not raised, neither is Christ;

¹⁷ and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is pointless and you have not, after all, been released from your sins.

¹⁸ In addition, those who have fallen asleep in Christ are utterly lost.

¹⁹ If our hope in Christ has been for this life only, we are of all people the most pitiable.

²⁰ In fact, however, Christ has been raised from the dead, as the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 17:1, 6-7, 8, 15

¹ [Prayer Of David] Listen, Yahweh, to an upright cause, pay attention to my cry, lend an ear to my prayer, my lips free from deceit.

⁶ I call upon you, God, for you answer me; turn your ear to me, hear what I say.

⁷ Show the evidence of your faithful love, saviour of those who hope in your strength against attack.

⁸ Guard me as the pupil of an eye, shelter me in the shadow of your wings

¹⁵ But I in my uprightness will see your face, and when I awake I shall be filled with the vision of you.