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Today's Readings
Reading I
Acts 3:11-26
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John, all
the people hurried in amazement toward them in the portico called
“Solomon’s Portico.” When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
“You children of Israel, why are you amazed at this, and why do you
look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by our own power
or piety? The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom
you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided
to release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that
a murderer be released to you. The author of life you put to death,
but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. And by
faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has
made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given him this
perfect health, in the presence of all of you. Now I know, brothers
and sisters, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders
did; but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced
beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ
would suffer. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins
may be wiped away, and that the Lord may grant you times of
refreshment and send you the Christ already appointed for you,
Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the times of universal
restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy
prophets from of old. For Moses said: A prophet like me will
the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin; to him
you shall listen in all that he may say to you. Everyone who does
not listen to that prophet will be cut off from the people.
“Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel and those
afterwards, also announced these days. You are the children of the
prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when
he said to Abraham, In your offspring all the families of the earth
shall be blessed. For you first, God raised up his servant and sent
him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9
R. (2ab) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the
earth! or: R. Alleluia. O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is
your name over all the earth! What is man that you should be mindful
of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? R. O
Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! or: R.
Alleluia. You have made him little less than the angels, and
crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him rule over the
works of your hands, putting all things under his feet. R. O
Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! or: R.
Alleluia. All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the
field, The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever
swims the paths of the seas. R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful
your name in all the earth! or: R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Lk 24:35-48
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.
While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst
and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and
terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to
them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your
hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me
and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can
see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his
feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he
asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece
of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said
to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still
with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and
in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their
minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is
written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the
third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be
preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.” |
