Saturday, May 03,
2014
3rd Sunday of EASTER –
Year A
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ACTS OF APOSTLES
2:14, 22-33
14 Then Peter stood up
with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice: 'Men of Judaea, and all you
who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what
I say.
22 'Men of Israel,
listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you
by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when
he was among you, as you know.
23 This man, who was put
into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took
and had crucified and killed by men outside the Law.
24 But God raised him to
life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be
held in its power since,
25 as David says of him:
I kept the Lord before my sight always, for with him at my right hand nothing
can shake me.
26 So my heart rejoiced
my tongue delighted; my body, too, will rest secure,
27 for you will not
abandon me to Hades or allow your holy one to see corruption.
28 You have taught me
the way of life, you will fill me with joy in your presence.
29 'Brothers, no one can
deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still
with us.
30 But since he was a
prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants
succeed him on the throne,
31 he spoke with
foreknowledge about the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not
abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not see corruption.
32 God raised this man
Jesus to life, and of that we are all witnesses.
33 Now raised to the
heights by God's right hand, he has received from the Father the Holy Spirit,
who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 16:1-2, 5,
7-11
1 [In a quiet voice Of
David] Protect me, O God, in you is my refuge.
2 To Yahweh I say, 'You
are my Lord, my happiness is in none
5 My birthright, my cup
is Yahweh; you, you alone, hold my lot secure.
7 I bless Yahweh who is
my counsellor, even at night my heart instructs me.
8 I keep Yahweh before
me always, for with him at my right hand, nothing can shake me.
9 So my heart rejoices,
my soul delights, my body too will rest secure,
10 for you will not
abandon me to Sheol, you cannot allow your faithful servant to see the abyss.
11 You will teach me the
path of life, unbounded joy in your presence, at your right hand delight for
ever.
Second Reading
1 PETER 1:17-21
17 And if you address as
Father him who judges without favouritism according to each individual's deeds,
live out the time of your exile here in reverent awe.
18 For you know that the
price of your ransom from the futile way of life handed down from your
ancestors was paid, not in anything perishable like silver or gold,
19 but in precious blood
as of a blameless and spotless lamb, Christ.
20 He was marked out
before the world was made, and was revealed at the final point of time for your
sake.
21 Through him you now
have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory for this
very purpose -- that your faith and hope should be in God.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
LUKE 24:13-35
13 Now that very same
day, two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from
Jerusalem,
14 and they were talking
together about all that had happened.
15 And it happened that
as they were talking together and discussing it, Jesus himself came up and
walked by their side;
16 but their eyes were
prevented from recognising him.
17 He said to them,
'What are all these things that you are discussing as you walk along?' They
stopped, their faces downcast.
18 Then one of them, called
Cleopas, answered him, 'You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who
does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.'
19 He asked, 'What
things?' They answered, 'All about Jesus of Nazareth, who showed himself a prophet
powerful in action and speech before God and the whole people;
20 and how our chief
priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and had him
crucified.
21 Our own hope had been
that he would be the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole
days have now gone by since it all happened;
22 and some women from
our group have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning,
23 and when they could
not find the body, they came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels
who declared he was alive.
24 Some of our friends
went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported, but of
him they saw nothing.'
25 Then he said to them,
'You foolish men! So slow to believe all that the prophets have said!
26 Was it not necessary
that the Christ should suffer before entering into his glory?'
27 Then, starting with
Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages
throughout the scriptures that were about himself.
28 When they drew near
to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on;
29 but they pressed him
to stay with them saying, 'It is nearly evening, and the day is almost over.'
So he went in to stay with them.
30 Now while he was with
them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and
handed it to them.
31 And their eyes were
opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight.
32 Then they said to
each other, 'Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road
and explained the scriptures to us?'
33 They set out that
instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled
together with their companions,
34 who said to them,
'The Lord has indeed risen and has appeared to Simon.'
35 Then they told their
story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the
breaking of bread.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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