Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Easter Weekday
Easter Weekday
FIRST READING
Acts 15: 1 –
6
1 But some men came down from Judea and were
teaching the brethren, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom
of Moses, you cannot be saved." 2 And when Paul and Barnabas
had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the
others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders
about this question. 3 So, being sent on their way by the church,
they passed through both Phoeni'cia and Sama'ria, reporting the conversion of
the Gentiles, and they gave great joy to all the brethren. 4 When
they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and
the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. 5 But
some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up, and said,
"It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of
Moses." 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered
together to consider this matter.
PSALM RESPONSES
Psalms 122: 1 –
5
1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let us
go to the house of the LORD!" 2 Our feet have been standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem! 3 Jerusalem, built as a city
which is bound firmly together, 4 to which the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name
of the LORD. 5 There thrones for judgment were set, the
thrones of the house of David
GOSPEL
John 15: 1 –
8
1 "I am the true vine, and my Father is
the vinedresser. 2 Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he
takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear
more fruit. 3 You are already made clean by the word which I have
spoken to you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch
cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,
unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. He
who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from
me you can do nothing. 6 If a man does not abide in me, he is cast
forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the
fire and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8 By
this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my
disciples.
The
everlasting God has in His wisdom, foreseen from eternity the cross that He now
presents to you as a gift from His inmost heart. This cross He now sends you,
He has considered with His all-knowing eyes, understood with His Divine mind,
tested with His wise justice, warmed with His loving arms and weighed with His
own hands, to see that it be not one inch too large and not one ounce too heavy
for you. He has blessed it with His holy Name, anointed it with His grace,
perfumed it with His consolation, taken one last glance at you and your
courage, and then sent it to you from heaven, a special greeting from God to
you, an alms of the all-merciful love of God. Our business is to love what
would have done. He wills our vocation as it is. Let us love that and not
trifle away our time hankering after other people's vocations. - St. Francis de
Sales
The Holy Trinity
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