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Podcast: Hear to Heaven
Episode: An Other Self, 11-12-2020
Description: FIRST READING
Phlm 7-20
Have him back, no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me.
A reading from the Letter of Saint Paul to Philemon
Beloved:
I have experienced much joy and encouragement from your love,
because the hearts of the holy ones
have been refreshed by you, brother.
Therefore, although I have the full right in Christ
to order you to do what is proper,
I rather urge you out of love,
being as I am, Paul, an old man,
and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus.
I urge you...