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# 1 Corinthians 11

1 Corinthians 11 is chapter 11 of 16 in the First Letter to the Corinthians. Here are all 34 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Women must have a covering over their heads. He blameth the abuses of their love feasts and upon that occasion treats of the Blessed Sacrament.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## 1 Corinthians 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Be imitators of me, as I also am of Christ.
2. Now I praise you, brothers, because you are mindful of me in everything, in such a way as to hold to my precepts as I have handed them down to you.
3. So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God.
4. Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head.
5. But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraces her head. For it is the same as if her head were shaven.
6. So if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off. Truly then, if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to have her head shaven, then she should cover her head.
7. Certainly, a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man.
8. For man is not of woman, but woman is of man.
9. And indeed, man was not created for woman, but woman was created for man.
10. Therefore, a woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the Angels.
11. Yet truly, man would not exist without woman, nor would woman exist without man, in the Lord.
12. For just as woman came into existence from man, so also does man exist through woman. But all things are from God.
13. Judge for yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God unveiled?
14. Does not even nature herself teach you that, indeed, if a man grows his hair long, it is a disgrace for him?
15. Yet truly, if a woman grows her hair long, it is a glory for her, because her hair has been given to her as a covering.
16. But if anyone has a mind to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor does the Church of God.
17. Now I caution you, without praising, about this: that you assemble together, and not for better, but for worse.
18. First of all, indeed, I hear that when you assemble together in the church, there are schisms among you. And I believe this, in part.
19. For there must also be heresies, so that those who have been tested may be made manifest among you.
20. And so, when you assemble together as one, it is no longer in order to eat the Lord’s supper.
21. For each one first takes his own supper to eat. And as a result, one person is hungry, while another is inebriated.
22. Do you not have houses, in which to eat and drink? Or do you have such contempt for the Church of God that you would confound those who do not have such contempt? What should I say to you? Should I praise you? I am not praising you in this.
23. For I have received from the Lord what I have also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus, on the same night that he was handed over, took bread,
24. and giving thanks, he broke it, and said: “Take and eat. This is my body, which shall be given up for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25. Similarly also, the cup, after he had eaten supper, saying: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”
26. For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord, until he returns.
27. And so, whoever eats this bread, or drinks from the cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be liable of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let a man examine himself, and, in this way, let him eat from that bread, and drink from that cup.
29. For whoever eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks a sentence against himself, not discerning it to be the body of the Lord.
30. As a result, many are weak and sick among you, and many have fallen asleep.
31. But if we ourselves were discerning, then certainly we would not be judged.
32. Yet when we are judged, we are being corrected by the Lord, so that we might not be condemned along with this world.
33. And so, my brothers, when you assemble together to eat, be attentive to one another.
34. If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you may not assemble together unto judgment. As for the rest, I will set it in order when I arrive.

## 1 Corinthians 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Imitatores mei estote, sicut et ego Christi.
2. Laudo autem vos fratres quod per omnia mei memores estis: et sicut tradidi vobis, præcepta mea tenetis.
3. Volo autem vos scire quod omnis viri caput, Christus est: caput autem mulieris, vir: caput vero Christi, Deus.
4. Omnis vir orans, aut prophetans velato capite, deturpat caput suum.
5. Omnis autem mulier orans, aut prophetans non velato capite, deturpat caput suum: unum enim est ac si decalvetur.
6. Nam si non velatur mulier, tondeatur. Si vero turpe est mulieri tonderi, aut decalvari, velet caput suum.
7. Vir quidem non debet velare caput suum: quoniam imago et gloria Dei est, mulier autem gloria viri est.
8. Non enim vir ex muliere est, sed mulier ex viro.
9. Etenim non est creatus vir propter mulierem, sed mulier propter virum.
10. Ideo debet mulier potestatem habere supra caput propter angelos.
11. Verumtamen neque vir sine muliere: neque mulier sine viro in Domino.
12. Nam sicut mulier de viro, ita et vir per mulierem: omnia autem ex Deo.
13. Vos ipsi judicate: decet mulierem non velatam orare Deum?
14. Nec ipsa natura docet vos, quod vir quidem si comam nutriat, ignominia est illi:
15. mulier vero si comam nutriat, gloria est illi: quoniam capilli pro velamine ei dati sunt.
16. Si quis autem videtur contentiosus esse: nos talem consuetudinem non habemus, neque ecclesia Dei.
17. Hoc autem præcipio: non laudans quod non in melius, sed in deterius convenitis.
18. Primum quidem convenientibus vobis in ecclesiam, audio scissuras esse inter vos, et ex parte credo.
19. Nam oportet et hæreses esse, ut et qui probati sunt, manifesti fiant in vobis.
20. Convenientibus ergo vobis in unum, jam non est Dominicam cœnam manducare.
21. Unusquisque enim suam cœnam præsumit ad manducandum, et alius quidem esurit, alius autem ebrius est.
22. Numquid domos non habetis ad manducandum, et bibendum? aut ecclesiam Dei contemnitis, et confunditis eos qui non habent? Quid dicam vobis? laudo vos? in hoc non laudo.
23. Ego enim accepi a Domino quod et tradidi vobis, quoniam Dominus Jesus in qua nocte tradebatur, accepit panem,
24. et gratias agens fregit, et dixit: Accipite, et manducate: hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis tradetur: hoc facite in meam commemorationem.
25. Similiter et calicem, postquam cœnavit, dicens: Hic calix novum testamentum est in meo sanguine: hoc facite quotiescumque bibetis, in meam commemorationem.
26. Quotiescumque enim manducabitis panem hunc, et calicem bibetis, mortem Domini annuntiabitis donec veniat.
27. Itaque quicumque manducaverit panem hunc, vel biberit calicem Domini indigne, reus erit corporis et sanguinis Domini.
28. Probet autem seipsum homo: et sic de pane illo edat, et de calice bibat.
29. Qui enim manducat et bibit indigne, judicium sibi manducat et bibit, non dijudicans corpus Domini.
30. Ideo inter vos multi infirmi et imbecilles, et dormiunt multi.
31. Quod si nosmetipsos dijudicaremus, non utique judicaremur.
32. Dum judicamur autem, a Domino corripimur, ut non cum hoc mundo damnemur.
33. Itaque fratres mei, cum convenitis ad manducandum, invicem exspectate.
34. Si quis esurit, domi manducet, ut non in judicium conveniatis. Cetera autem, cum venero, disponam.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2178: The Lord's Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1329: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 752: The Church in God's Plan ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 610: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1339: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1366: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1328: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1329: What is This Sacrament Called? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1356: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1376: The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 611: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 781: The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1076: The Sacramental Economy ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1130: The Sacraments of Eternal Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2772: The Prayer of the Church ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 671: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1344: The Eucharist in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1393: The Paschal Banquet ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1566: The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1385: The Paschal Banquet ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “The Eucharist is the sacrament of love; it signifies love, it produces love.” — St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, III q.73, c. 1273 (On this theme: verse 24)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 10: that is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the power of her husband: and this, the apostle adds, because of the angels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful.
- Verse 19: By reason of the pride and perversity of man's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws good out of this evil, manifesting, by that occasion, who are the good and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.
- Verse 20: “The Lord's supper” … So the apostle here calls the charity feasts observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the Corinthians, on these occasions; which were the more criminal, because these feasts were accompanied with the celebrating of the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament.
- Verse 27: Here erroneous translators corrupted the text, by putting and drink (contrary to the original) instead of or drink.
- Verse 27: not discerning the body. This demonstrates the real presence of the body and blood of Christ, even to the unworthy communicant; who otherwise could not be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, or justly condemned for not discerning the Lord's body.
- Verse 28: This is not said by way of command, but by way of allowance, viz., where and when it is agreeable to the practice and discipline of the church.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Mar 25, 2027: Holy Thursday — Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
- Thu, Apr 13, 2028 (computed): Holy Thursday — Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
- Sun, Jun 18, 2028 (computed): The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ — Second Reading, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
- Mon, Sep 18, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, 1 Corinthians 11:17-26, 33

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).