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| "Touch Me Not" -- by James Tissot |
Tuesday
in the Octave of Easter
FIRST
READING: Acts 2:
36 - 41
36
Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has
made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
37
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to
Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we
do?"
38
And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of
you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and
you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39
For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are
far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him."
40
And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying,
"Save yourselves from this crooked generation."
41
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added
that day about three thousand souls.
PSALM:
Psalms 33:
4 - 5, 18 - 20, 22
4
For the word of the LORD is upright; and all his work is done in
faithfulness.
5
He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the
steadfast love of the LORD.
18
Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear him, on those who
hope in his steadfast love,
19
that he may deliver their soul from death, and keep them alive in
famine.
20
Our soul waits for the LORD; he is our help and shield.
22
Let thy steadfast love, O LORD, be upon us, even as we hope in thee.
GOSPEL:
John 20:
11 - 18
11
But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped
to look into the tomb;
12
and she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had
lain, one at the head and one at the feet.
13
They said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to
them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know
where they have laid him."
14
Saying this, she turned round and saw Jesus standing, but she did not
know that it was Jesus.
15
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you
seek?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir,
if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I
will take him away."
16
Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in
Hebrew, "Rab-bo'ni!" (which means Teacher).
17
Jesus said to her, "Do not hold me, for I have not yet ascended
to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending
to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."
18
Mary Mag'dalene went and said to the disciples, "I have seen the
Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
