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The epistles to the Corinthians were written to the young church in Corinth as it wrestled with the immoral environment surrounding it—and with that environment’s clash with the moral standards of Christianity. Divisions in the church became a problem, so Paul wrote 1 Corinthians as a response to the discord. In his letter, Paul addresses a wide range of issues faced by the Corinthian church,...

these words. They remind us, on the one hand, of the need to ask the Lord to help us when we experience difficulties, and at the same time to be full of trust and to abandon ourselves to God, who knows what is best for us. “The Lord is good”, St Jerome teaches, “because he often does not give us what we desire, in order to give us something we would prefer” (Epist. ad Paulinum). The passage also shows us what attitude we should take to our own weakness: “We have to glory”, St Alphonsus says, “in
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