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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (23/4/10)
Friday of the Third Week of Easter
Reading 1
Saul,
still breathing murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord,
went to
the high priest and asked him
for
letters to the synagogues in Damascus, that,
if he
should find any men or women who belonged to the Way,
he might
bring them back to Jerusalem in chains.
On
his journey, as he was nearing Damascus,
a light
from the sky suddenly flashed around him.
He
fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him,
“Saul,
Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
He
said, “Who are you, sir?”
The
reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Now
get up and go into the city and you will be told what you must do.”
The
men who were traveling with him stood speechless,
for they
heard the voice but could see no one.
Saul
got up from the ground,
but when
he opened his eyes he could see nothing;
so they
led him by the hand and brought him to Damascus.
For
three days he was unable to see, and he neither ate nor drank.
There
was a disciple in Damascus named Ananias,
and the
Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.”
He
answered, “Here I am, Lord.”
The
Lord said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight
and ask
at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul.
He
is there praying,
and in a
vision he has seen a man named Ananias
come in
and lay his hands on him,
that he
may regain his sight.”
But
Ananias replied,
“Lord,
I have heard from many sources about this man,
what evil
things he has done to your holy ones in Jerusalem.
And
here he has authority from the chief priests
to
imprison all who call upon your name.”
But
the Lord said to him,
“Go,
for this man is a chosen instrument of mine
to carry
my name before Gentiles, kings, and children of Israel,
and I
will show him what he will have to suffer for my name.”
So
Ananias went and entered the house;
laying
his hands on him, he said,
“Saul,
my brother, the Lord has sent me,
Jesus
who appeared to you on the way by which you came,
that you
may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Immediately
things like scales fell from his eyes
and he
regained his sight.
He
got up and was baptized,
and when
he had eaten, he recovered his strength.
He
stayed some days with the disciples in Damascus,
and he
began at once to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues,
that he is the Son of God.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(Mark 16:15) Go out to
all the world and tell the Good News.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Praise
the LORD, all you nations;
glorify
him, all you peoples!
R.
Go out to all the world and tell the Good
News.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
For
steadfast is his kindness toward us,
and the
fidelity of the LORD endures forever.
R.
Go out to all the world and tell the Good
News.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
The
Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,
“How
can this man give us his Flesh to eat?”
Jesus
said to them,
“Amen,
amen, I say to you,
unless
you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood,
you do
not have life within you.
Whoever
eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood
has
eternal life,
and I
will raise him on the last day.
For
my Flesh is true food,
and my
Blood is true drink.
Whoever
eats my Flesh and drinks my Blood
remains
in me and I in him.
Just
as the living Father sent me
and I
have life because of the Father,
so also
the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.
This
is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike
your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever
eats this bread will live forever.”
These things he said while
teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
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