Daily Reading for Thursday, June 17th, 2021

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 11:1-11

¹ I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me -- not that you don't do this already.

² The jealousy that I feel for you is, you see, God's own jealousy: I gave you all in marriage to a single husband, a virgin pure for presentation to Christ.

³ But I am afraid that, just as the snake with his cunning seduced Eve, your minds may be led astray from single-minded devotion to Christ.

⁴ Because any chance comer has only to preach a Jesus other than the one we preached, or you have only to receive a spirit different from the one you received, or a gospel different from the one you accepted -- and you put up with that only too willingly.

⁵ Now, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to the super-apostles.

⁶ Even if there is something lacking in my public speaking, this is not the case with my knowledge, as we have openly shown to you at all times and before everyone.

⁷ Have I done wrong, then, humbling myself so that you might be raised up, by preaching the gospel of God to you for nothing?

⁸ I was robbing other churches, taking wages from them in order to work for you.

⁹ When I was with you and needed money, I was no burden to anybody, for the brothers from Macedonia brought me as much as I needed when they came; I have always been careful not to let myself be a burden to you in any way, and I shall continue to be so.

¹⁰ And as Christ's truth is in me, this boast of mine is not going to be silenced in the regions of Achaia.

¹¹ Why should it be? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 111:1-2, 3-4, 7-8

¹ Alleluia! I give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart, in the meeting-place of honest people, in the assembly.

² Great are the deeds of Yahweh, to be pondered by all who delight in them.

³ Full of splendour and majesty his work, his saving justice stands firm for ever.

⁴ He gives us a memorial of his great deeds; Yahweh is mercy and tenderness.

⁷ The works of his hands are fidelity and justice, all his precepts are trustworthy,

⁸ established for ever and ever, accomplished in fidelity and honesty.