June 5, 2006, Memorial of St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr.

A reading from the second letter of St. Paul to Timothy.

You have followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch,

Iconium and Listra, persecutions that I endured.

Yet from all these things the Lord delivered me.

In fact, all who want to live religiously in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

But wicked people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceivers and deceived.

But you remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom

you learned it, and that from infancy you have known the sacred scriptures which are capable

of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction,

and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

The Word of the Lord

The responsorial psalm.

The response is, O Lord, great peace have they who love your law.

Though my persecutors and my foes are many,

I turn not away from your decrees.

O Lord, great peace have they who love your law.

Permanence is your word's chief trait.

Each of your just ordinances is everlasting.

O Lord, great peace have they who love your law.

Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of your word.

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