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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (22/4/10)
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter
Reading 1
The
angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,
“Get
up and head south on the road
that goes
down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route.”
So
he got up and set out.
Now
there was an Ethiopian eunuch,
a court
official of the Candace,
that is,
the queen of the Ethiopians,
in charge
of her entire treasury,
who had
come to Jerusalem to worship, and was returning home.
Seated
in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
The
Spirit said to Philip,
“Go
and join up with that chariot.”
Philip
ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said,
“Do
you understand what you are reading?”
He
replied,
“How
can I, unless someone instructs me?”
So
he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.
This
was the Scripture passage he was reading:
Like
a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and
as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so
he opened not his mouth.
In
his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who
will tell of his posterity?
For
his life is taken from the earth.
Then
the eunuch said to Philip in reply,
“I
beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this?
About
himself, or about someone else?”
Then
Philip opened his mouth and, beginning with this Scripture passage,
he
proclaimed Jesus to him.
As
they traveled along the road
they came
to some water,
and the
eunuch said, “Look, there is water.
What
is to prevent my being baptized?”
Then
he ordered the chariot to stop,
and
Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water,
and he
baptized him.
When
they came out of the water,
the
Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away,
and the
eunuch saw him no more,
but
continued on his way rejoicing.
Philip
came to Azotus, and went about proclaiming the good
news
to all the towns until he reached Caesarea.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(1) Let all the earth
cry out to God with joy.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Bless
our God, you peoples,
loudly
sound his praise;
He
has given life to our souls,
and has
not let our feet slip.
R.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Hear
now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he
has done for me.
When
I appealed to him in words,
praise
was on the tip of my tongue.
R.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Blessed
be God who refused me not
my prayer
or his kindness!
R.
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus
said to the crowds:
“No
one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw
him,
and I
will raise him on the last day.
It
is written in the prophets:
They
shall all be taught by God.
Everyone
who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not
that anyone has seen the Father
except
the one who is from God;
he has
seen the Father.
Amen,
amen, I say to you,
whoever
believes has eternal life.
I am
the bread of life.
Your
ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is
the bread that comes down from heaven
so that
one may eat it and not die.
I am
the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever
eats this bread will live forever;
and the
bread that I will give
is my Flesh for the life of the world.”
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