This is the Sunday sermon series for Sexagesima Sunday in the traditional Latin Mass calendar.

The lesson comes from the Apostle Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, taken from chapters 11 and 12.

Brethren, you gladly put up with fools because you are wise yourselves.

For you suffer it if a man enslaves you, if a man

devours you, if a man takes from you, if a man is arrogant, if a man slaps your face, I speak to my own

shame as though we had been weak. But wherein any man is bold, I am speaking foolishly,

I also am bold. Are they Hebrews, so am I. Are they Israelites, so am I.

Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I. Are they ministers of Christ? I, to speak as a fool, am more.

In many more labors, in prisons more frequently, in lashes above measure, often exposed to death.

From the Jews, five times I received, 40 lashes less one.

Thrice was I scourged, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck,

a night and a day I was adrift on the sea, in journeyings, often in peril from floods, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation,

in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from a false brethren,

in labor and hardships, in many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, in fastings

often, in cold and nakedness.

Besides those outer things, there is my daily pressing anxiety, the care of all the churches.

Who is weak, and I am not weak?

Who is made to stumble, and I am not inflamed?

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is blessed forevermore, knows that I do not lie.

In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me,

but I was lowered in a basket

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