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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (22/5/10)
Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
Reading 1
When
he entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself,
with the
soldier who was guarding him.
Three
days later he called together the leaders of the Jews.
When
they had gathered he said to them, “My brothers,
although
I had done nothing against our people
or our
ancestral customs,
I
was handed over to the Romans as a prisoner from Jerusalem.
After
trying my case the Romans wanted to release me,
because
they found nothing against me deserving the death penalty.
But
when the Jews objected, I was obliged to appeal to Caesar,
even
though I had no accusation to make against my own nation.
This
is the reason, then, I have requested to see you
and to
speak with you, for it is on account of the hope of Israel
that I
wear these chains.”
He
remained for two full years in his lodgings.
He
received all who came to him, and with complete assurance
and
without hindrance he proclaimed the Kingdom of God
and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(see 7b) The just will
gaze on your face, O Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
The
LORD is in his holy temple;
the
LORD’s throne is in heaven.
His
eyes behold,
his
searching glance is on mankind.
R.
The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
The
LORD searches the just and the wicked;
the lover
of violence he hates.
For
the LORD is just, he loves just deeds;
the
upright shall see his face.
R.
The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Peter
turned and saw the disciple following whom Jesus loved,
the one
who had also reclined upon his chest during the supper
and had
said, “Master, who is the one who will betray you?”
When
Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?”
Jesus
said to him, “What if I want him to remain until I come?
What
concern is it of yours?
You
follow me.”
So
the word spread among the brothers that that disciple would not die.
But
Jesus had not told him that he would not die,
just
“What if I want him to remain until I come?
What
concern is it of yours?”
It
is this disciple who testifies to these things
and has
written them, and we know that his testimony is true.
There
are also many other things that Jesus did,
but if
these were to be described individually,
I do
not think the whole world would contain the books
that would be written.
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