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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (12/5/10)
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Reading 1
After
Paul’s escorts had taken him to Athens,
they came
away with instructions for Silas and Timothy
to join
him as soon as possible.
Then
Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said:
“You
Athenians, I see that in every respect
you are
very religious.
For
as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines,
I
even discovered an altar inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’
What
therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The
God who made the world and all that is in it,
the Lord
of heaven and earth,
does not
dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he
served by human hands because he needs anything.
Rather
it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He
made from one the whole human race
to dwell
on the entire surface of the earth,
and he
fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that
people might seek God,
even
perhaps grope for him and find him,
though
indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For
‘In him we live and move and have our being,’
as even
some of your poets have said,
‘For we too are his offspring.’
Since
therefore we are the offspring of God,
we ought
not to think that the divinity is like an image
fashioned
from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God
has overlooked the times of ignorance,
but now
he demands that all people everywhere repent
because
he has established a day on which he will ‘judge the world
with
justice’ through a man he has appointed,
and he
has provided confirmation for all
by
raising him from the dead.”
When
they heard about resurrection of the dead,
some
began to scoff, but others said,
“We
should like to hear you on this some other time.”
And
so Paul left them.
But
some did join him, and became believers.
Among
them were Dionysius,
a member
of the Court of the Areopagus,
a woman
named Damaris, and others with them.
After this he left Athens and
went to Corinth.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Praise
the LORD from the heavens;
praise
him in the heights.
Praise
him, all you his angels;
praise
him, all you his hosts.
R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Let
the kings of the earth and all peoples,
the
princes and all the judges of the earth,
Young
men too, and maidens,
old men
and boys.
R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Praise
the name of the LORD,
for his
name alone is exalted;
His
majesty is above earth and heaven.
R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
He
has lifted up the horn of his people;
Be
this his praise from all his faithful ones,
from the
children of Israel, the people close to him.
Alleluia.
R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus
said to his disciples:
“I
have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But
when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will
guide you to all truth.
He
will not speak on his own,
but he
will speak what he hears,
and will
declare to you the things that are coming.
He
will glorify me,
because
he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything
that the Father has is mine;
for this
reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.”
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