Christ, in Human Weakness / Cristo, en su Debilidad Humana
Click here for daily reading St. Paul admonishes the Corinthians in our first reading, criticizing their distinctions, boasting, and wealth. This is not the life of a disciple of Christ, or at least not the life of an apostle, he explains. The apostles should be the “last of all, like people sentenced to death,” “a spectacle to the world,” “fools on Christ’s account,” “weak,” “in disrepute,” “hungry and thirsty,” “poorly clad and roughly treated,” “ridiculed,” “persecuted,” “slandered,” “the world’s rubbish, the scum of all” (1 Cor. 4:9–13). This is not only a description of apostles: it is a description of…