Mass of Christian Burial for Archbishop Emeritus Philip Wilson DD JCL - Flipbook - Page 8
Second Reading
Read by Jane Swift
Romans 8:31-17
With God on our side who can be against us? Since God did
not spare his own Son, but gave him up to benefit us all,
we may be certain, after such a gift, that he will not refuse
anything he can give. Could anyone accuse those that God has
chosen? When God acquits, could anyone condemn? Could
Christ Jesus? No! He not only died for us – he rose from the
dead, and there at God’s right hand he stands and pleads for
us.
Nothing therefore can come between us and the love of Christ,
even if we are troubled or worried, or being persecuted, or
lacking food or clothes, or being threatened or even attacked.
As scripture promises: For your sake we are being massacred
daily, and reckoned as sheep for the slaughter. These are the
trials through which we triumph, by the power of him who
loved us.
For I am certain of this: neither death nor life, no angel, no
prince, nothing that exists, nothing still to come, not any
power, or height or depth, nor any created thing, can ever
come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
The Word of the Lord.
All:
Thanks be to God.
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