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Today's Readings
Reading I
Acts 20:17-27
From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus
summoned. When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know how I
lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the
province of Asia. I served the Lord with all humility and with the
tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews,
and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your
benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes. I
earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before
God and to faith in our Lord Jesus. But now, compelled by the
Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do
not know, except that in one city after another the Holy Spirit has
been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I
consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course
and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear
witness to the Gospel of God’s grace. “But now I know that
none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will
ever see my face again. And so I solemnly declare to you this day
that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you, for I
did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.”
Responsorial Psalm
68:10-11, 20-21
R. (33a) Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. or: R.
Alleluia. A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your
inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; Your flock
settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the
needy. R. Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth. or: R.
Alleluia. Blessed day by day be the Lord, who bears our
burdens; God, who is our salvation. God is a saving God for us; the
LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death. R. Sing
to God, O kingdoms of the earth. or: R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Jn 17:1-11a
Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has
come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just
as you gave him authority over all people, so that your son may give
eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that
they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent,
Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work
that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the
glory that I had with you before the world began. “I revealed
your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged
to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now
they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words
you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and
truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that
you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for
the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything
of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been
glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but
they are in the world, while I am coming to you.” |
