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Year C. (11/4/10)
Second
Sunday of Easter (Divine
Mercy Sunday)
Reading 1
Many
signs and wonders were done among the people
at the hands of the apostles.
They were all together in
Solomon’s portico.
None of the others dared to
join them, but the people esteemed them.
Yet more than ever, believers
in the Lord,
great numbers of men and women, were added to them.
Thus they even carried the
sick out into the streets
and laid them on cots and mats
so that when Peter came by,
at least his shadow might fall on one or another of
them.
A large number of people from
the towns
in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered,
bringing the sick and those disturbed by unclean spirits,
and they were all cured.
Responsorial Psalm
R. (1) Give
thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Let the house of Israel say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let the house of Aaron say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
Let those who fear the LORD
say,
“His mercy endures forever.”
R. Give thanks to the
Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
I was hard pressed and was
falling,
but the LORD helped me.
My strength and my courage is
the LORD,
and he has been my savior.
The joyful shout of victory
in the tents of the just:
R. Give thanks to the
Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
The stone which the builders
rejected
has become the cornerstone.
By the LORD has this been done;
it is wonderful in our eyes.
This is the day the LORD has
made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
R. Give thanks to the
Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Reading 2
I, John, your brother, who share with you
the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in
Jesus,
found myself on the island called Patmos
because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony to Jesus.
I was caught up in spirit on
the Lord’s day
and heard behind me a voice as loud as a trumpet, which
said,
“Write on a scroll what you
see.”
Then I turned to see whose
voice it was that spoke to me,
and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands
and in the midst of the lampstands
one like a son of man,
wearing an ankle-length robe, with a gold sash around his
chest.
When I caught sight of him, I
fell down at his feet as though dead.
He touched me with his right
hand and said, “Do not be afraid.
I am the first and the last,
the one who lives.
Once I was dead, but now I am
alive forever and ever.
I hold the keys to death and
the netherworld.
Write down, therefore, what
you have seen,
and what is happening, and what will happen afterwards.”
Gospel
On the evening of that first
day of the week,
when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,
for fear of the Jews,
Jesus came and stood in their
midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
When he had said this, he
showed them his hands and his side.
The disciples rejoiced when
they saw the Lord.
Jesus said to them again,
“Peace be with you.
As the Father has sent me, so
I send you.”
And when he had said this, he
breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit.
Whose sins you forgive are
forgiven them,
and whose sins you retain are retained.”
Thomas, called Didymus, one of the Twelve,
was not with them when Jesus came.
So the other disciples said
to him, “We have seen the Lord.”
But he said to them,
“Unless I see the mark of the
nails in his hands
and put my finger into the nailmarks
and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
Now a week later his
disciples were again inside
and Thomas was with them.
Jesus came, although the
doors were locked,
and stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.”
Then he said to Thomas, “Put
your finger here and see my hands,
and bring your hand and put it into my side,
and do not be unbelieving, but believe.”
Thomas answered and said to
him, “My Lord and my God!”
Jesus said to him, “Have you
come to believe because you have seen me?
Blessed are those who have
not seen and have believed.”
Now Jesus did many other
signs in the presence of his disciples
that are not written in this book.
But these are written that
you may come to believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,
and that through this belief you may have life in his
name.
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