The old order has passed; new things have come.
A reading from the second letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians.
The love of Christ impels us,
once we have come to the conviction
that one died for all;
therefore, all have died.
He indeed died for all,
so that those who live
might no longer live for themselves
but for him who for their sake
died and was raised.
Consequently, from now on
we regard no one according to the flesh;
even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh,
yet now we know him so no longer.
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation:
the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come.
The Word of the Lord.