Thursday
of the Second Week of Easter
FIRST
READING: Acts 5:27-33
27
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And
the high priest asked them,
28
Saying: Commanding we commanded you, that you should not teach in
this name; and behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine,
and you have a mind to bring the blood of this man upon us.
29
But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God,
rather than men.
30
The God of our fathers hath raised up Jesus, whom you put to death,
hanging him upon a tree.
31
Him hath God exalted with his right hand, to be Prince and Saviour,
to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.
32
And we are witnesses of these things and the Holy Ghost, whom God
hath given to all that obey him.
33
When they had heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and
they thought to put them to death.
PSALM:
Psalms 34:2, 9, 17-20
2 I
will bless the Lord at all times, his praise shall be always in my
mouth.
9 O
taste, and see that the Lord is sweet: blessed is the man that hopeth
in him.
17
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things:
to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
18
The just cried, and the Lord heard them: and delivered them out of
all their troubles.
19
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a contrite heart: and he will
save the humble of spirit.
20
Many are the afflictions of the just; but out of them all will the
Lord deliver them.
GOSPEL:
John 3:31-36
31
He that cometh from above, is above all. He that is of the earth, of
the earth he is, and of the earth he speaketh. He that cometh from
heaven, is above all.
32
And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth: and no man
receiveth his testimony.
33
He that hath received his testimony, hath set to his seal that God is
true.
34
For he whom God hath sent, speaketh the words of God: for God doth
not give the Spirit by measure.
35
The Father loveth the Son: and he hath given all things into his
hand.
36
He that believeth in the Son, hath life everlasting; but he that
believeth not the Son, shall not see life; but the wrath of God
abideth on him.
