Reading I
1 Tim 1:1-2, 12-14
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Saviour and Christ Jesus our hope:
To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy and peace, from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.
I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry:
Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.
