Tuesday
of the Third Week of Easter
FIRST
READING: Acts 7:51--8:1
51
You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always
resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you also.
52
Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? And they have
slain them who foretold of the coming of the Just One; of whom you
have been now the betrayers and murderers:
53
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not
kept it.
54
Now hearing these things, they were cut to the heart, and they
gnashed with their teeth at him.
55
But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looking up steadfastly to
heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of
God. And he said: Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of
man standing on the right hand of God.
56
And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with
one accord ran violently upon him.
57
And casting him forth without the city, they stoned him; and the
witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man, whose
name was Saul.
58
And they stoned Stephen, invoking, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit.
59
And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord,
lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell
asleep in the Lord. And Saul was consenting to his death.
1
And at that time there was raised a great persecution against the
church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all dispersed through
the countries of Judea, and Samaria, except the apostles.
PSALM:
Psalms 31:3-4, 6-8, 17, 21
3
Bow down thy ear to me: make haste to deliver me. Be thou unto me a
God, a protector, and a house of refuge, to save me.
4
For thou art my strength and my refuge; and for thy name's sake thou
wilt lead me, and nourish me.
6
Into thy hands I commend my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O Lord,
the God of truth.
7
Thou hast hated them that regard vanities, to no purpose. But I have
hoped in the Lord:
8 I
will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou hast regarded my
humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
17
Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; save me in thy mercy.
21
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy face, from the disturbance
of men. Thou shalt protect them in thy tabernacle from the
contradiction of tongues.
GOSPEL:
John 6:30-35
30
They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew, that
we may see, and may believe thee? What dost thou work?
31
Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave
them bread from heaven to eat.
32
Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say to you; Moses gave you not
bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from
heaven.
33
For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven, and
giveth life to the world.
34
They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread.
35
And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me
shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.
