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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (26/4/10)
Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
Reading 1
The
Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea
heard
that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.
So
when Peter went up to Jerusalem
the
circumcised believers confronted him, saying,
‘You
entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them.”
Peter
began and explained it to them step by step, saying,
“I
was at prayer in the city of Joppa
when in a
trance I had a vision,
something
resembling a large sheet coming down,
lowered
from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.
Looking
intently into it,
I
observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth,
the wild
beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
I
also heard a voice say to me, ‘Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.’
But
I said, ‘Certainly not, sir,
because
nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’
But
a second time a voice from heaven answered,
‘What
God has made clean, you are not to call profane.’
This
happened three times,
and then
everything was drawn up again into the sky.
Just
then three men appeared at the house where we were,
who had
been sent to me from Caesarea.
The
Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating.
These
six brothers also went with me,
and we
entered the man’s house.
He
related to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, saying,
‘Send
someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
who will
speak words to you
by which
you and all your household will be saved.’
As I
began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them
as it had
upon us at the beginning,
and I
remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said,
‘John
baptized with water
but you
will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’
If
then God gave them the same gift he gave to us
when we
came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
who was I
to be able to hinder God?”
When
they heard this,
they
stopped objecting and glorified God, saying,
“God has then granted
life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.”
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(see 3a) Athirst is my
soul for the living God.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
As
the hind longs for the running waters,
so my
soul longs for you, O God.
Athirst
is my soul for God, the living God.
When
shall I go and behold the face of God?
R.
Athirst is my soul for the living God.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Send
forth your light and your fidelity;
they
shall lead me on
And
bring me to your holy mountain,
to your
dwelling-place.
R.
Athirst is my soul for the living God.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Then
will I go in to the altar of God,
the God
of my gladness and joy;
Then
will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O
God, my God!
R.
Athirst is my soul for the living God.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus
said:
“Amen,
amen, I say to you,
whoever
does not enter a sheepfold through the gate
but
climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
But
whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
The
gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice,
as he
calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
When
he has driven out all his own,
he walks
ahead of them, and the sheep follow him,
because
they recognize his voice.
But
they will not follow a stranger;
they will
run away from him,
because
they do not recognize the voice of strangers.”
Although
Jesus used this figure of speech,
they did
not realize what he was trying to tell them.
So
Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you,
I am
the gate for the sheep.
All
who came before me are thieves and robbers,
but the
sheep did not listen to them.
I am
the gate.
Whoever
enters through me will be saved,
and will
come in and go out and find pasture.
A
thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy;
I came so that they
might have life and have it more abundantly.”
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