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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (8/4/10)
Thursday in the Octave of Easter
Reading 1
As
the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,
all the
people hurried in amazement toward them
in the
portico called “Solomon’s Portico.”
When
Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
“You
children of Israel, why are you amazed at this,
and why
do you look so intently at us
as if we
had made him walk by our own power or piety?
The
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
the God
of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus
whom you
handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence,
when he
had decided to release him.
You
denied the Holy and Righteous One
and asked
that a murderer be released to you.
The
author of life you put to death,
but God
raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.
And
by faith in his name,
this man,
whom you see and know, his name has made strong,
and the
faith that comes through it
has given
him this perfect health,
in the
presence of all of you.
Now
I know, brothers and sisters,
that you
acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
but God
has thus brought to fulfillment
what he
had announced beforehand
through
the mouth of all the prophets,
that his
Christ would suffer.
Repent,
therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,
and that
the Lord may grant you times of refreshment
and send
you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,
whom
heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration
of which
God spoke through the mouth
of his
holy prophets from of old.
For
Moses said:
A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to
him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.
Everyone
who does not listen to that prophet
will be cut off from the people.
“Moreover,
all the prophets who spoke,
from
Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.
You
are the children of the prophets
and of
the covenant that God made with your ancestors
when he
said to Abraham,
In
your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
For
you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to
bless you
by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(2ab) O Lord, our God,
how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R.
Alleluia.
O
LORD, our Lord,
how
glorious is your name over all the earth!
What
is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the
son of man that you should care for him?
R.
O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R.
Alleluia.
You
have made him little less than the angels,
and
crowned him with glory and honor.
You
have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting
all things under his feet.
R.
O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R.
Alleluia.
All
sheep and oxen,
yes, and
the beasts of the field,
The
birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and
whatever swims the paths of the seas.
R.
O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
The
disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how
they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.
While
they were still speaking about this,
he stood
in their midst and said to them,
“Peace
be with you.”
But
they were startled and terrified
and
thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then
he said to them, “Why are you troubled?
And
why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look
at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch
me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you
can see I have.”
And
as he said this,
he showed
them his hands and his feet.
While
they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,
he asked
them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
They
gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took
it and ate it in front of them.
He
said to them,
“These
are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that
everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in
the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then
he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And
he said to them,
“Thus
it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise
from the dead on the third day
and that
repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be
preached in his name
to all
the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these
things.”
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