Monday of the Third Week of Easter

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Acts 6.8-15

Stephen, full of grace and power,
performed great wonders
and signs among the people.
But some of those
who were of the synagogue
called “The Liberated”,
Cyrenians, Alexandrians,
and those of Cilicia and Asia,
arose, disputing with Stephen.

They were not able to withstand
the wisdom and the Spirit
by which he spoke.
Then they secretly induced men to say,
“We have heard him speak
blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
They stirred up the people,
the elders, and the scribes,
and came against him and seized him,
and brought him in to the Sanhedrin,
and set up false witnesses who said,
“This human never stops
speaking blasphemous words
against this holy place and the law.
For we have heard him say
that this Jesus of Nazareth
will destroy this place
and will change the customs
which Moses handed on to us.”

All who sat in the Sanhedrin,
fastening their eyes on him,
saw his face like the face of an angel.

Responsorial – Psalm 119.23-24, 26-27, 29-30 Resp. 1ab

R. Blessed are those who walk according to the law of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!

Though princes sit and slander me,
your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Indeed your statutes are my delight,
and my counselors.

R. Blessed are those who walk according to the law of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!

I declared my ways, and you answered me.
Teach me your statutes.
Let me understand the teaching of your precepts!
Then I will meditate on your wondrous works.

R. Blessed are those who walk according to the law of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!

Keep me from the way of deceit.
Grant me your law graciously!
I have chosen the way of truth.
I have set your ordinances before me.

R. Blessed are those who walk according to the law of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!

Gospel - John 6.22-29

[Jesus fed the five thousand men,
and then his disciples
saw him walking on the sea.]

On the next day,
the crowd that stood
on the other side of the sea
saw that there was no other boat there,
except the one in which his disciples had embarked,
and that Jesus had not entered
with his disciples into the boat,
but his disciples had gone away alone.

However boats from Tiberias came near
to the place where they ate the bread
after the Lord had given thanks.
So, when the crowd saw
that Jesus was not there,
nor his disciples,
they themselves got into those boats,
and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

When they found him
on the other side of the sea,
they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
Jesus answered them,
“Amen, amen, I tell you,
you seek me, not because you saw signs,
but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
Do not work for the food which perishes,
but for the food which remains to eternal life,
which the Son of Human will give to you.
For God the Father has sealed him.”
So they said to him,
“What must we do, to do works of God?”
Jesus answered them,
“This is the work of God:
that you believe in him whom he has sent.”