Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter

Official Translation

Reading 1 – Acts 14.19-28

Some Jews from Antioch and Iconium
came there
and having persuaded the crowd,
they stoned Paul
and dragged him out of the city,
supposing that he was dead.
But as the disciples stood around him,
he rose up, and entered into the city.

On the next day,
he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
When they had preached the Gospel to that city,
and had made many disciples,
they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
confirming the souls of the disciples,
exhorting them to continue in the faith,
that “Through many afflictions
we must enter into the Kingdom of God.”
When they had appointed presbyters for them
in every assembly,
with prayer and fasting,
they commended them to the Lord,
in whom they put their faith.

They passed through Pisidia
and came to Pamphylia.
When they had spoken the word in Perga,
they went down to Attalia.
From there they sailed to Antioch,
where they had been committed
to the grace of God
for the work which they had fulfilled.

When they had arrived
and had gathered the assembly together,
they reported all the things
that God had done with them,
and that he had opened
a door of faith to the nations.
They stayed there with the disciples
for not a little time.

Responsorial – Psalm 145.10-11, 12-13ab, 21

R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom. or R. Alleluia!

Let all your works, O Lord, praise you,
and let your holy ones bless you.
They will speak of the glory of your kingdom:
and tell of your power.

R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom. or R. Alleluia!

To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts,
the glory of the majesty of his kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.
Your dominion endures throughout all generations.

R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom. or R. Alleluia!

My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord.
Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glory of the majesty of your kingdom. or R. Alleluia!

Gospel – John 14.27-31a

Jesus said to his disciples:
Peace I leave with you.
My peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives,
do I give to you.

Do not let your hearts be troubled,
neither let them be fearful.
You heard how I told you,
‘I go away,
but I will come back to you.’
If you loved me,
you would have rejoiced,
because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’
for the Father is greater than I.
Now I have told you
before it happens so that,
when it happens, you may believe.

I will no longer speak much with you,
for the prince of the world comes.
He has nothing on me,
but the world must know that I love the Father,
and as the Father commanded me,
so do I do.”