Catholic Mass Online 19th June 2021, Saturday Mass

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.