Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Year A, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 10:16-17)

16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf. This Sunday is the feast of

Pentecost Sunday, 2nd Reading (1 Corinthians 12: 3-7, 12-13)

You will find a commentary on the first reading for Pentecost here: https://biblestudystjosephsparis.wordpress.com/2022/06/03/pentecost-sunday-1st-reading-acts-21-11/ No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. 4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. 5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and

Holy Thursday Evening Mass, 2nd Reading (1 Corinthians 11:23-26)

The gospel for Holy Thursday can be found here https://biblestudystjosephsparis.wordpress.com/2022/04/14/easter-triduum-holy-thursday-gospel-commentary-john-131-15/ 23 For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the

Death of a Nation (Hosea 13:12-16)

12 The guilt of Ephraim is stored up, his sins are kept on record. 13 Pains as of a woman in childbirth come to him, but he is a child without wisdom; when the time arrives, he doesn’t have the sense to come out of the womb. 14 “I will deliver this people from the power of the grave; I

Seventh Sunday, Year A, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 3:16-23)

16 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person; for God’s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple. 18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become

Sixth Sunday, Ordinary Time, Year A, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 2:6-10)

6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if

Third Sunday, Ordinary TIme, Year A, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17)

10 I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. 11 My brothers and sisters, some from Chloe’s household have informed me that there are quarrels

Third Sunday, Ordinary Time, Year C, 2nd Reading (1 Cor 12:12-30)

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one