Daily Reading for Wednesday, September 11th, 2024

Reading 1, First Corinthians 7:25-31

²⁵ About people remaining virgin, I have no directions from the Lord, but I give my own opinion as a person who has been granted the Lord's mercy to be faithful.

²⁶ Well then, because of the stress which is weighing upon us, the right thing seems to be this: it is good for people to stay as they are.

²⁷ If you are joined to a wife, do not seek to be released; if you are freed of a wife, do not look for a wife.

²⁸ However, if you do get married, that is not a sin, and it is not sinful for a virgin to enter upon marriage. But such people will have the hardships consequent on human nature, and I would like you to be without that.

²⁹ What I mean, brothers, is that the time has become limited, and from now on, those who have spouses should live as though they had none;

³⁰ and those who mourn as though they were not mourning; those who enjoy life as though they did not enjoy it; those who have been buying property as though they had no possessions;

³¹ and those who are involved with the world as though they were people not engrossed in it. Because this world as we know it is passing away.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17

¹¹ then the king will fall in love with your beauty; he is your lord, bow down before him.

¹² The daughter of Tyre will court your favour with gifts, and the richest of peoples

¹⁴ in brocade, the king's daughter is led within to the king with the maidens of her retinue; her companions are brought to her,

¹⁵ they enter the king's palace with joy and rejoicing.

¹⁶ Instead of your ancestors you will have sons; you will make them rulers over the whole world.

¹⁷ I will make your name endure from generation to generation, so nations will sing your praise for ever and ever.