Daily Reading for Saturday, June 17th, 2023

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-21

¹⁴ For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;

¹⁵ his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who died and was raised to life.

¹⁶ From now onwards, then, we will not consider anyone by human standards: even if we were once familiar with Christ according to human standards, we do not know him in that way any longer.

¹⁷ So for anyone who is in Christ, there is a new creation: the old order is gone and a new being is there to see.

¹⁸ It is all God's work; he reconciled us to himself through Christ and he gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

¹⁹ I mean, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not holding anyone's faults against them, but entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

²⁰ So we are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were urging you through us, and in the name of Christ we appeal to you to be reconciled to God.

²¹ For our sake he made the sinless one a victim for sin, so that in him we might become the uprightness of God.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 8-9, 11-12

¹ [Of David] Bless Yahweh, my soul, from the depths of my being, his holy name;

² bless Yahweh, my soul, never forget all his acts of kindness.

³ He forgives all your offences, cures all your diseases,

⁴ he redeems your life from the abyss, crowns you with faithful love and tenderness;

⁸ Yahweh is tenderness and pity, slow to anger and rich in faithful love;

⁹ his indignation does not last for ever, nor his resentment remain for all time;

¹¹ As the height of heaven above earth, so strong is his faithful love for those who fear him.

¹² As the distance of east from west, so far from us does he put our faults.