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Year 2 Weekday
Reading. (7/4/10)
Wednesday in the Octave of Easter
Reading 1
Peter
and John were going up to the temple area
for
the three o’clock hour of prayer.
And
a man crippled from birth was carried
and
placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate” every day
to
beg for alms from the people who entered the temple.
When
he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple,
he
asked for alms.
But
Peter looked intently at him, as did John,
and
said, “Look at us.”
He
paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Peter
said, “I have neither silver nor gold,
but
what I do have I give you:
in
the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and
walk.”
Then
Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up,
and
immediately his feet and ankles grew strong.
He
leaped up, stood, and walked around,
and
went into the temple with them,
walking
and jumping and praising God.
When
all the people saw him walking and praising God,
they
recognized him as the one
who
used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple,
and
they were filled with amazement and astonishment
at what had happened to him.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(3b) Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Give
thanks to the LORD, invoke his name;
make
known among the nations his deeds.
Sing
to him, sing his praise,
proclaim
all his wondrous deeds.
R.
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Glory
in his holy name;
rejoice,
O hearts that seek the LORD!
Look
to the LORD in his strength;
seek
to serve him constantly.
R.
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
You
descendants of Abraham, his servants,
sons
of Jacob, his chosen ones!
He,
the LORD, is our God;
throughout
the earth his judgments prevail.
R.
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
He
remembers forever his covenant
which
he made binding for a thousand generationsB
Which
he entered into with Abraham
and
by his oath to Isaac.
R.
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
That
very day, the first day of the week,
two
of Jesus’ disciples were going
to a
village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus,
and
they were conversing about all the things that had occurred.
And
it happened that while they were conversing and debating,
Jesus
himself drew near and walked with them,
but
their eyes were prevented from recognizing him.
He
asked them,
“What
are you discussing as you walk along?”
They
stopped, looking downcast.
One
of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply,
“Are
you the only visitor to Jerusalem
who
does not know of the things
that
have taken place there in these days?”
And
he replied to them, “What sort of things?”
They
said to him,
“The
things that happened to Jesus the Nazarene,
who
was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before
God and all the people,
how
our chief priests and rulers both handed him over
to a
sentence of death and crucified him.
But
we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel;
and
besides all this,
it
is now the third day since this took place.
Some
women from our group, however, have astounded us:
they
were at the tomb early in the morning
and
did not find his Body;
they
came back and reported
that
they had indeed seen a vision of angels
who
announced that he was alive.
Then
some of those with us went to the tomb
and
found things just as the women had described,
but
him they did not see.”
And
he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are!
How
slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke!
Was
it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things
and
enter into his glory?”
Then
beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
he
interpreted to them what referred to him
in
all the Scriptures.
As
they approached the village to which they were going,
he
gave the impression that he was going on farther.
But
they urged him, “Stay with us,
for
it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.”
So
he went in to stay with them.
And
it happened that, while he was with them at table,
he
took bread, said the blessing,
broke
it, and gave it to them.
With
that their eyes were opened and they recognized him,
but
he vanished from their sight.
Then
they said to each other,
“Were
not our hearts burning within us
while
he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?”
So
they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem
where
they found gathered together
the
Eleven and those with them who were saying,
“The
Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!”
Then
the two recounted what had taken place on the way
and how he was made known to
them in the breaking of the bread.
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