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Lectionary Readings for the 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C
Readings, Responsorial Psalm and Gospel
Reading I, Acts 13, 14. 43-52A Reading from the Acts of the ApostlesMany became believers. Paul and Barnabas traveled on from Perga and came to Antioch in Pisidia. On the sabbath day they entered the synagogue and sat down. Many Jews and devout Jewish converts became their followers and they spoke to them and urged them to hold fast to the grace of God. The following sabbath, almost the entire city gathered to hear the word of God. When the Jews saw the crowds, they became very jealous and countered with violent abuse whatever Paul said. Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly, nonetheless: "The word of God has to be declared to you first of all; but since you reject it and thus convict yourselves as unworthy of everlasting life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For thus were we instructed by the Lord: 'I have made you a light to the nations, a means of salvation to the ends of the earth.'" The Gentiles were delighted when they heard this and responded to the word of the Lord with praise. All who were destined for life everlasting believed in it. Thus the word of the Lord was carried throughout that area. But some of the Jews stirred up their influential women sympathizers and the leading men of the town, and in that way got a persecution started against Paul and Barnabas. The Jews finally expelled them from their territory. So the two shook the dust from their feet in protest and went on to Iconium. Their disciples knew only how to be filled with joy and the Holy Spirit. The Word of the Lord. Responsorial Psalm, Ps 100, 1-2. 3. 5. R. v. 3R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.1. Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful song. R. 2. Know that the Lord is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends. R. 3. The Lord is good: his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness, to all generations. R. Reading II, Rv 7, 9. 14-17A Reading from the Book of RevelationThe Lamb who is at the throne will be their shepherd and will lead them to springs of living water. I, John, saw before me a huge crowd which no one could count from every nation and race, people and tongue. They stood before the throne and the Lamb, dressed in long white robes and holding palm branches in their hands. Then one of the elders said to me: "These are the ones who have survived the great period of trial; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. "It was this that brought them before God's throne: day and night they minister to him in his temple; he who sits on the throne will give them shelter. Never again shall they know hunger or thirst, nor shall the sun or its heat beat down on them, for the Lamb on the throne will shepherd them. He will lead them to springs of life-giving water, and God will wipe every tear from their eyes." The Word of the Lord. Gospel, Jn 10, 27-30R. Alleluia. I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my sheep, and mine know me. R. Alleluia. A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John I give my sheep eternal life. Jesus said: "My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one shall snatch them out of my hand. My Father is greater than all, in what he has given me, and there is no snatching out of his hand. The Father and I are one." This is the gospel of the Lord.
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