FIRST READING A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans (Romans 6:19-23)“Now you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God.” Brethren: I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, … [Read more…]
FIRST READING A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans (Romans 6:12-18)“Yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life.” Brethren: let not sin reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield … [Read more…]
FIRST READINGA reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to the Romans (Romans 5:12.15b.17-19.20b-21)“If, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned, much more will those who receive grace reign in life.” Brethren: As sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men … [Read more…]
FIRST READINGA reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:10-17ab)Luke alone is with me. Beloved: Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you; for … [Read more…]
FIRST READING A reading from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 53: 10-11)“When he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days,.”. It was the will of the Lord to bruise him; he has put him to grief, when he makes himself an offering for sin, he shall see … [Read more…]