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The Seventh Sunday of Easter – The Ascension of the Lord
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 1,1-11
Psalm: 46 (47), 2-3.6-7.8-9
Second Reading: Eph 1, 17-23
Gospel: Mt 28, 16-20
The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them. When they saw him, they worshipped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me… Read more »
Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 18, 23-28
Psalm: 46 (47), 2-3.8-9.10
Gospel: Jn 16, 23b-28
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete… Read more »
Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 18, 9-18
Psalm: 46 (47), 2-3.4-5.6-7
Gospel: Jn 16, 20-23a
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labour, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world… Read more »
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 18, 1-8
Psalm: 97 (98), 1.2-3ab.3cd-4
Gospel: Jn 16, 16-20
“A little while, and you will see me no more; again a little while, and you will see me.” Some of his disciples said to one another, “What is this that he says to us, ‘A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and, ‘because I go to the Father’?” They said, “What does he mean by ‘a little while’? … Read more »
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 17, 15.22 – 18, 1
Psalm: 148, 1-2.11-12ab.12c-13a.13bcd-14
Gospel: Jn 16, 12-15
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth… Read more »
Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 16,22-34
Psalm: 138(137),1-2ab.2cde-3.7c.8
Gospel: Jn 16, 5-11
Jesus said to his disciples: “Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts. But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go… Read more »
Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 16, 11-15
Psalm: 149, 1-2.3-4.5-6a & 9b
Gospel: Jn 15, 26 – 16, 4a
Jesus said to his disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me… Read more »
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 8, 5-8.14-17
Psalm: 65 (66), 1-3a.4-5.6-7a.16.20
Second Reading: 1 Pt 3, 15-18
Gospel: Jn 14, 15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows it… Read more »
Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 16, 1-10
Psalm: 99 (100), 1-2.3.5
Gospel: Jn 15, 18-21
Jesus said to his disciples: “If the world hates you, realise that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you… Read more »
Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Readings of the day
First Reading: Acts 15, 22-31
Psalm: 56 (57), 8-9.10-12
Gospel: Jn 15, 12-17
Jesus said to his disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you… Read more »
