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| "Jesus Walks in the Portico of Solomon" -- by James Tissot |
Fourth
Sunday of Easter
FIRST
READING: Acts 13:
14, 43 - 52
14
But they passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and
entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.
43
And when the synagogue was broken up, many of the Jews, and of the
strangers who served God, followed Paul and Barnabas: who speaking to
them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
44
But the next sabbath day, the whole city almost came together, to
hear the word of God.
45
And the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with envy, and
contradicted those things which were said by Paul, blaspheming.
46
Then Paul and Barnabas said boldly: To you it behoved us first to
speak the word of God: but because you reject it, and judge
yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold we turn to the Gentiles.
47
For so the Lord hath commanded us: I have set thee to be the light of
the Gentiles; that thou mayest be for salvation unto the utmost part
of the earth.
48
And the Gentiles hearing it, were glad, and glorified the word of the
Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting, believed.
49
And the word of the Lord was published throughout the whole country.
50
But the Jews stirred up religious and honourable women, and the chief
men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas:
and cast them out of their coasts.
51
But they, shaking off the dust of their feet against them, came to
Iconium.
52
And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost.
PSALM:
Psalms 100:
1 - 3, 5
1
Sing joyfully to God, all the earth:
2
serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with
exceeding great joy.
3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We
are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
5
For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to
generation and generation.
SECOND
READING: Revelation
7: 9, 14 - 17
9
After this I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the
throne, and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms
in their hands:
14
And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These
are they who are come out of great tribulation, and have washed their
robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
15
Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day
and night in his temple: and he, that sitteth on the throne, shall
dwell over them.
16
They shall no more hunger nor thirst, neither shall the sun fall on
them, nor any heat.
17
For the Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne, shall rule them,
and shall lead them to the fountains of the waters of life, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
GOSPEL:
John 10:
27 - 30
27
My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me.
28
And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever,
and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.
29
That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one
can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.
30
I and the Father are one.
