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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (20/5/10)
Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Reading 1
Wishing
to determine the truth
about why
Paul was being accused by the Jews,
the
commander freed him
and
ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene.
Then
he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.
Paul
was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees,
so he
called out before the Sanhedrin,
“My
brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees;
I am
on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead.”
When
he said this,
a dispute
broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees,
and the
group became divided.
For
the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection
or angels
or spirits,
while the
Pharisees acknowledge all three.
A
great uproar occurred,
and some
scribes belonging to the Pharisee party
stood up
and sharply argued,
“We
find nothing wrong with this man.
Suppose
a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
The
dispute was so serious that the commander,
afraid
that Paul would be torn to pieces by them,
ordered
his troops to go down and rescue Paul from their midst
and take
him into the compound.
The
following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage.
For
just as you have borne witness to my cause in Jerusalem,
so you must also bear witness in Rome.”
Ps
16:1-2a and 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(1) Keep me safe, O
God; you are my hope.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Keep
me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I
say to the LORD, “My Lord are you.”
O
LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is
who hold fast my lot.
R.
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
I
bless the LORD who counsels me;
even in
the night my heart exhorts me.
I
set the LORD ever before me;
with him
at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
R.
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Therefore
my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
my body,
too, abides in confidence;
Because
you will not abandon my soul to the nether world,
nor will
you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.
R.
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
You
will show me the path to life,
fullness
of joys in your presence,
the
delights at your right hand forever.
R.
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Lifting
up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:
“I
pray not only for these,
but also
for those who will believe in me through their word,
so that
they may all be one,
as you,
Father, are in me and I in you,
that they
also may be in us,
that the
world may believe that you sent me.
And
I have given them the glory you gave me,
so that
they may be one, as we are one,
I in
them and you in me,
that they
may be brought to perfection as one,
that the
world may know that you sent me,
and that
you loved them even as you loved me.
Father,
they are your gift to me.
I
wish that where I am they also may be with me,
that they
may see my glory that you gave me,
because
you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous
Father, the world also does not know you,
but I
know you, and they know that you sent me.
I
made known to them your name and I will make it known,
that the
love with which you loved me
may be in them and I in them.”
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