Gospel of 19 September 2018
First letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians 12,31.13,1-13.
Brothers, aspire to greater charisms! And I will show you a best way of all.
Even if I spoke the languages of men and angels, but did not have charity, they are like a bronze that resounds or a cymbal that clinks.
And if I had the gift of prophecy and knew all the mysteries and all science, and possessed the fullness of faith so as to transport the mountains, but I had no charity, they are nothing.
And even if I distributed all my substances and gave my body to be burned, but I didn't have charity, nothing benefits me.
Charity is patient, charity is benign; charity is not envious, does not boast, does not swell,
does not disrespect, does not seek his interest, does not get angry, does not take into account the evil received,
he does not enjoy injustice, but takes pleasure in the truth.
Everything covers, believes everything, hopes everything, endures everything.
Charity will never end. The prophecies will disappear; the gift of tongues will cease and science will vanish.
Our knowledge is imperfect and imperfect our prophecy.
But when what is perfect comes, what is imperfect will disappear.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But, having become a man, what was a child I abandoned.
Now let's see how in a mirror, in a confused way; but then we'll see face to face. Now I know imperfectly, but then I will know perfectly, as I too am known.
So these are the three things that remain: faith, hope and charity; but of all greater is charity!
Salmi 33(32),2-3.4-5.12.22.
Praise the Lord with the harp,
with the ten-string harp sung to him.
Sing a new song to the Lord,
play the zither with art and cheer.
Right is the word of the Lord
every work is faithful.
He loves law and justice,
the earth is full of his grace.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people who have chosen themselves as heirs.
Lord, may your grace be upon us,
because we hope in you.
From the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Luke 7,31-35.
At that time, the Lord said:
«To whom then will I compare the men of this generation, to whom are they similar?
They are similar to those children who, standing in the square, shout to each other: we played your flute and you didn't dance; we sang a lament and you didn't cry!
In fact, John the Baptist came who does not eat bread and does not drink wine, and you say: He has a demon.
The Son of Man who eats and drinks has come, and you say: Here is a glutton and a drunkard, friend of tax collectors and sinners.
But wisdom has been done justice by all his children. "