Friday, June 17, 2011
Fr. Jason Welle, O.F.M.
1st Reading: 2 Cor. 11:18, 21-30
Homily summary: A few years ago there was a popular commercial for a deoderant. It had to do with a “one-upper” type of person — one who always could top whatever was your accomplishment.
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No one likes a “one-upper,” and yet Paul in the first reading talked about others who had met “super-apostles.” Paul mentions that he has undergone many more tribulations, beatings and sufferings than they. Any of us in Christ Jesus has no reason to boast. Paul boasts only about his weakness, and God turns it into a strength. This is because God emptied himself and became as a slave. Paul’s only strength was his weakness, and with that God made him perfect.