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

Israel’s Sin (Hosea 10:9-15)

9 “Since the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there you have remained. Will not war again overtake the evildoers in Gibeah? 10 When I please, I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them to put them in bonds for their double sin. 11 Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put

Fourth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year A, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 1:26-31)

26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things

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

7th Sunday, Year C, Second Reading (1 Corinthians 15:45-49)

45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47 The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. 48 As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth;

Feast of the Assumption of Mary, Commentary on the2nd Reading (1 Corinthians 15:54-57)

54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.” 55 “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But