Official Translation
Reading 1 – Acts 15.22-31
Then it seemed good
to the Apostles and the presbyters,
with the whole Church,
to choose men out of their company,
and send them to Antioch
with Paul and Barnabas:
Judas called Barsabbas and Silas,
chief men among the brothers.
They wrote these things by their hand:
“The Apostles and the presbyters,
brothers to those in Antioch, Syria, and Kilikia,
brothers from the nations: Greetings.
Because we have heard
that some who went out from us
have troubled you with words,
unsettling your souls, saying,
‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’
(to whom we gave no mandate);
it seemed good to us,
having come to one accord,
to choose out men
and send them to you
with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
humans who have risked their lives
for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We have sent therefore Judas and Silas,
who themselves will also tell you
the same things by word of mouth.
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit,
and to us,
to lay no greater burden on you
than these necessary things:
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols,
from blood, from things strangled,
and from sexual immorality.
If you keep yourselves from these,
it will be well with you. Farewell.”
So, when they were sent off,
they came to Antioch.
Having gathered the multitude together,
they delivered the letter.
When they had read it,
they rejoiced over the encouragement.
Responsorial – Psalm 57.8-9, 10+12 Resp. 10a
R. I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. or R. Alleluia!
My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast.
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
Wake up, my soul! Wake up, lyre and harp!
I will wake up the dawn.
R. I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. or R. Alleluia!
I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples.
I will sing praises to you among the nations.
For your great loving kindness reaches to the heavens,
and your truth to the skies.
Be exalted, God, above the heavens.
Let your glory be over all the earth.
R. I will give thanks to you, Lord, among the peoples. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – John 15.12-17
Jesus said to his disciples:
“This is my commandment,
that you love one another,
even as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this,
that someone lay down their life
for their friends.
You are my friends,
if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you slaves,
for the slave does not know
what their Lord does.
But I have called you friends,
for everything that I heard from my Father,
I have made known to you.
You did not choose me,
but I chose you,
and appointed you,
that you should go and bear fruit,
and that your fruit should remain;
so that whatever you will ask
of the Father in my name,
he may give it to you.
I command these things to you,
so that you will love one another.”
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Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Acts 15.7-21
When there had been much discussion,
Peter rose up and said to the Apostles and presbyters,
“Men, brothers,
you know that in the beginning days
God made a choice among you,
that by my mouth the Gentiles
should hear the word of the Gospel and believe.
God, who knows the heart,
testified to them,
by giving them the Holy Spirit,
just like he did to us.
He made no distinction
between us and them,
cleansing their hearts by faith.
Now therefore why do you tempt God,
that you should put a yoke
on the neck of the disciples
which neither our fathers
nor we were able to bear?
But we believe that we are saved
through the grace of the Lord Jesus,
just as they are.”
The whole crowd kept silence,
and they listened to Barnabas and Paul
reporting what signs and wonders
God had done among the nations through them.
After they were silent, James answered,
“Men, brothers, listen to me.
Simeon has reported
how God first visited the nations,
to take out of them
a people for his name.
This agrees with the words of the prophets.
As it is written,
‘After these things I will return.
I will again build the tent of David,
which has fallen.
I will again build its ruins.
I will set it up,
that the rest of humans may seek the Lord;
all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord,
who does all these things,
known from eternity.’
“Therefore my judgment
is that we do not trouble
those from among the Gentiles
who turn to God,
but that we write to them
that they abstain from the pollution of idols,
from sexual immorality,
from what is strangled and from blood.
For Moses from generations of old
has in every city those who preach him,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Responsorial – Psalm 96.1-2a, 2b-3, 10 Resp. 3
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Sing to the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord! Bless his name!
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples.
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
The world is also established. It cannot be moved.
He will judge the people with equity.
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – John 15.9-11
Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loved me,
I also loved you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments,
and remain in his love.
I have spoken these things to you,
that my joy may remain in you,
and that your joy may be complete.”
Reading 1 – Acts 15.7-21
When there had been much discussion,
Peter rose up and said to the Apostles and presbyters,
“Men, brothers,
you know that in the beginning days
God made a choice among you,
that by my mouth the Gentiles
should hear the word of the Gospel and believe.
God, who knows the heart,
testified to them,
by giving them the Holy Spirit,
just like he did to us.
He made no distinction
between us and them,
cleansing their hearts by faith.
Now therefore why do you tempt God,
that you should put a yoke
on the neck of the disciples
which neither our fathers
nor we were able to bear?
But we believe that we are saved
through the grace of the Lord Jesus,
just as they are.”
The whole crowd kept silence,
and they listened to Barnabas and Paul
reporting what signs and wonders
God had done among the nations through them.
After they were silent, James answered,
“Men, brothers, listen to me.
Simeon has reported
how God first visited the nations,
to take out of them
a people for his name.
This agrees with the words of the prophets.
As it is written,
‘After these things I will return.
I will again build the tent of David,
which has fallen.
I will again build its ruins.
I will set it up,
that the rest of humans may seek the Lord;
all the Gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord,
who does all these things,
known from eternity.’
“Therefore my judgment
is that we do not trouble
those from among the Gentiles
who turn to God,
but that we write to them
that they abstain from the pollution of idols,
from sexual immorality,
from what is strangled and from blood.
For Moses from generations of old
has in every city those who preach him,
being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Responsorial – Psalm 96.1-2a, 2b-3, 10 Resp. 3
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Sing to the Lord a new song!
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord! Bless his name!
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Proclaim his salvation from day to day!
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples.
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”
The world is also established. It cannot be moved.
He will judge the people with equity.
R. Declare God’s marvelous works among all the people. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – John 15.9-11
Jesus said to his disciples:
“As the Father loved me,
I also loved you.
Remain in my love.
If you keep my commandments,
you will remain in my love;
even as I have kept my Father’s commandments,
and remain in his love.
I have spoken these things to you,
that my joy may remain in you,
and that your joy may be complete.”
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Official Translation
Reading 1 – Acts 15.1-6
Some who came down from Judea
taught the brothers,
“Unless you are circumcised
after the custom of Moses,
you cannot be saved.”
So when Paul and Barnabas
had no small discord and discussion with them,
they appointed Paul and Barnabas,
and some others of them,
to go up to Jerusalem
to the Apostles and presbyters
about this question.
They, being sent on their way by the Church,
passed through Phoenicia and Samaria,
announcing the conversion of the Gentiles.
They caused great joy to all the brothers.
When they had come to Jerusalem,
they were received by the Church
and the Apostles and the presbyters,
and they reported all things
that God had done with them.
But some of the sect of
the Pharisees who believed
rose up, saying,
“It is necessary to circumcise them
and to command them
to keep the law of Moses.”
The Apostles and the presbyters
gathered together to see about this matter.
Responsorial – Psalm 122.1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 Resp. 1
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Jerusalem is built as a city
that is compact together.
To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
According to the covenant of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
For there are set thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – John 15.1-8
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the farmer.
Every branch in me
that does not bear fruit,
he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit,
he prunes,
so that it may bear more fruit.
You are already pruned
because of the word
which I have spoken to you.
Remain on me, as I remain on you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you,
unless you remain on me.
I am the vine. You are the branches.
They who remain on me, and I on them,
bear much fruit,
for apart from me
you can do nothing.
If someone does not remain on me,
they are thrown out as a branch and wither,
and they gather them,
throw them into the fire,
and they are burned.
If you remain on me,
and my words remain on you,
you will ask whatever you desire,
and it will be done for you.
In this is my Father glorified:
that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.”
Reading 1 – Acts 15.1-6
Some who came down from Judea
taught the brothers,
“Unless you are circumcised
after the custom of Moses,
you cannot be saved.”
So when Paul and Barnabas
had no small discord and discussion with them,
they appointed Paul and Barnabas,
and some others of them,
to go up to Jerusalem
to the Apostles and presbyters
about this question.
They, being sent on their way by the Church,
passed through Phoenicia and Samaria,
announcing the conversion of the Gentiles.
They caused great joy to all the brothers.
When they had come to Jerusalem,
they were received by the Church
and the Apostles and the presbyters,
and they reported all things
that God had done with them.
But some of the sect of
the Pharisees who believed
rose up, saying,
“It is necessary to circumcise them
and to command them
to keep the law of Moses.”
The Apostles and the presbyters
gathered together to see about this matter.
Responsorial – Psalm 122.1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 Resp. 1
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
I was glad when they said to me,
“Let us go to the house of the LORD.”
Our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Jerusalem is built as a city
that is compact together.
To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
According to the covenant of Israel,
to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.
For there are set thrones of judgment,
the thrones of the house of David.
R. Let us gladly go to the house of the Lord. or R. Alleluia!
Gospel – John 15.1-8
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I am the true vine,
and my Father is the farmer.
Every branch in me
that does not bear fruit,
he takes away.
Every branch that bears fruit,
he prunes,
so that it may bear more fruit.
You are already pruned
because of the word
which I have spoken to you.
Remain on me, as I remain on you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself,
unless it remains on the vine,
so neither can you,
unless you remain on me.
I am the vine. You are the branches.
They who remain on me, and I on them,
bear much fruit,
for apart from me
you can do nothing.
If someone does not remain on me,
they are thrown out as a branch and wither,
and they gather them,
throw them into the fire,
and they are burned.
If you remain on me,
and my words remain on you,
you will ask whatever you desire,
and it will be done for you.
In this is my Father glorified:
that you bear much fruit;
and so you will be my disciples.”
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