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Today's Readings
Reading I
Acts 6:8-15
Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working great wonders and
signs among the people. Certain members of the so-called Synagogue
of Freedmen, Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia
and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen, but they could not
withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke. Then they
instigated some men to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous
words against Moses and God.” They stirred up the people, the
elders, and the scribes, accosted him, seized him, and brought him
before the Sanhedrin. They presented false witnesses who testified,
“This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the
law. For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will
destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to
us.” All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and
saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30
R. (1ab) Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! or:
R. Alleluia. Though princes meet and talk against me, your
servant meditates on your statutes. Yes, your decrees are my
delight; they are my counselors. R. Blessed are they who follow
the law of the Lord! or: R. Alleluia. I declared my ways,
and you answered me; teach me your statutes. Make me understand the
way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds. R.
Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! or: R.
Alleluia. Remove from me the way of falsehood, and favor me with
your law. The way of truth I have chosen; I have set your ordinances
before me. R. Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
or: R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Jn 6:22-29
[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his disciples saw him
walking on the sea.] The next day, the crowd that remained across
the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus
had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his
disciples had left. Other boats came from Tiberias near the place
where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks. When the
crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they
themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
And when they found him across the sea they said to him, “Rabbi,
when did you get here?” Jesus answered them and said, “Amen, amen, I
say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but
because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not work for food
that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which
the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set
his seal.” So they said to him, “What can we do to accomplish
the works of God?” Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the
work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.” |
