FIRST READING:
Acts 20: 17 - 27
17
And from Mile'tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of
the church.
18
And when they came to him, he said to them: "You yourselves know
how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot
in Asia,
19
serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials
which befell me through the plots of the Jews;
20
how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was
profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,
21
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of
faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
22
And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not
knowing what shall befall me there;
23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that
imprisonment and afflictions await me.
24
But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself,
if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received
from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
25
And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone preaching
the kingdom will see my face no more.
26
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood
of all of you,
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for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
PSALM:
Psalms 68: 10 - 11, 20 - 21
10
thy flock found a dwelling in it; in thy goodness, O God, thou didst
provide for the needy.
11
The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the
tidings:
20
Our God is a God of salvation; and to GOD, the Lord, belongs escape
from death.
21
But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him
who walks in his guilty ways.
GOSPEL: John
17: 1 - 11
1
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven
and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son that the
Son may glorify thee,
2
since thou hast given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life
to all whom thou hast given him.
3
And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and
Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
4
I glorified thee on earth, having accomplished the work which thou
gavest me to do;
5
and now, Father, glorify thou me in thy own presence with the glory
which I had with thee before the world was made.
6
"I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out
of the world; thine they were, and thou gavest them to me, and they
have kept thy word.
7
Now they know that everything that thou hast given me is from thee;
8
for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have
received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have
believed that thou didst send me.
9
I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those
whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;
10
all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.
11
And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I
am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou
hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
