Daily Reading for Saturday, June 21st, 2025

Reading 1, Second Corinthians 12:1-10

¹ I am boasting because I have to. Not that it does any good, but I will move on to visions and revelations from the Lord.

² I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago -- still in the body? I do not know; or out of the body? I do not know: God knows -- was caught up right into the third heaven.

³ And I know that this man -- still in the body? or outside the body? I do not know, God knows-

⁴ was caught up into Paradise and heard words said that cannot and may not be spoken by any human being.

⁵ On behalf of someone like that I am willing to boast, but I am not going to boast on my own behalf except of my weaknesses;

⁶ and then, if I do choose to boast I shall not be talking like a fool because I shall be speaking the truth. But I will not go on in case anybody should rate me higher than he sees and hears me to be, because of the exceptional greatness of the revelations.

⁷ Wherefore, so that I should not get above myself, I was given a thorn in the flesh, a messenger from Satan to batter me and prevent me from getting above myself.

⁸ About this, I have three times pleaded with the Lord that it might leave me;

⁹ but he has answered me, 'My grace is enough for you: for power is at full stretch in weakness.' It is, then, about my weaknesses that I am happiest of all to boast, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me;

¹⁰ and that is why I am glad of weaknesses, insults, constraints, persecutions and distress for Christ's sake. For it is when I am weak that I am strong.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:8-9, 10-11, 12-13

⁸ Taste and see that Yahweh is good. How blessed are those who take refuge in him.

⁹ Fear Yahweh, you his holy ones; those who fear him lack for nothing.

¹⁰ Young lions may go needy and hungry, but those who seek Yahweh lack nothing good.

¹¹ Come, my children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

¹² Who among you delights in life, longs for time to enjoy prosperity?

¹³ Guard your tongue from evil, your lips from any breath of deceit.

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