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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (12/4/10)
Monday of the Second Week of Easter
Reading 1
After
their release Peter and John went back to their own people
and
reported what the chief priests and elders had told them.
And
when they heard it,
they
raised their voices to God with one accord
and said,
“Sovereign Lord, maker of heaven and earth
and the
sea and all that is in them,
you said
by the Holy Spirit
through
the mouth of our father David, your servant:
Why
did the Gentiles rage
and
the peoples entertain folly?
The
kings of the earth took their stand
and
the princes gathered together
against the Lord and against his anointed.
Indeed
they gathered in this city
against
your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed,
Herod
and Pontius Pilate,
together
with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
to do
what your hand and your will
had long
ago planned to take place.
And
now, Lord, take note of their threats,
and
enable your servants to speak your word
with all
boldness, as you stretch forth your hand to heal,
and signs
and wonders are done
through
the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
As
they prayed, the place where they were gathered shook,
and they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(see 11d) Blessed are
all who take refuge in the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Why
do the nations rage
and the
peoples utter folly?
The
kings of the earth rise up,
and the
princes conspire together
against
the LORD and against his anointed:
“Let
us break their fetters
and cast
their bonds from us!”
R.
Blessed are all who take refuge in the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
He
who is throned in heaven laughs;
the LORD
derides them.
Then
in anger he speaks to them;
he
terrifies them in his wrath:
“I
myself have set up my king
on Zion,
my holy mountain.”
I
will proclaim the decree of the LORD.
R.
Blessed are all who take refuge in the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
The
LORD said to me, “You are my Son;
this day
I have begotten you.
Ask
of me and I will give you
the
nations for an inheritance
and the
ends of the earth for your possession.
You
shall rule them with an iron rod;
you shall
shatter them like an earthen dish.”
R.
Blessed are all who take refuge in the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
There
was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
He
came to Jesus at night and said to him,
“Rabbi,
we know that you are a teacher who has come from God,
for no
one can do these signs that you are doing
unless
God is with him.”
Jesus
answered and said to him,
“Amen,
amen, I say to you,
unless
one is born from above, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus
said to him,
“How
can a man once grown old be born again?
Surely
he cannot reenter his mother’s womb and be born again, can he?”
Jesus
answered,
“Amen,
amen, I say to you,
unless one
is born of water and Spirit
he cannot
enter the Kingdom of God.
What
is born of flesh is flesh
and what
is born of spirit is spirit.
Do
not be amazed that I told you,
‘You
must be born from above.’
The
wind blows where it wills,
and you
can hear the sound it makes,
but you
do not know where it comes from or where it goes;
so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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