Saturday, April 23,
2016
5th Sunday of EASTER
– Year C
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
Acts 14:21-27
21 Having preached the
good news in that town and made a considerable number of disciples, they went
back through Lystra, Iconium and Antioch.
22 They put fresh heart
into the disciples, encouraging them to persevere in the faith, saying, 'We
must all experience many hardships before we enter the kingdom of God.'
23 In each of these
churches they appointed elders, and with prayer and fasting they commended them
to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.
24 They passed through
Pisidia and reached Pamphylia.
25 Then after
proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia
26 and from there sailed
for Antioch, where they had originally been commended to the grace of God for
the work they had now completed.
27 On their arrival they
assembled the church and gave an account of all that God had done with them,
and how he had opened the door of faith to the gentiles.
‘The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 145:8-9,
10-11, 12-13
8 Yahweh is tenderness
and pity, slow to anger, full of faithful love.
9 Yahweh is generous to
all, his tenderness embraces all his creatures.
10 All your creatures
shall thank you, Yahweh, and your faithful shall bless you.
11 They shall speak of
the glory of your kingship and tell of your might,
12 making known your
mighty deeds to the children of Adam, the glory and majesty of your kingship.
13 Your kingship is a
kingship for ever, your reign lasts from age to age. Yahweh is trustworthy in
all his words, and upright in all his deeds.
Second Reading
Revelation 21:1-5
1 Then I saw a new
heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared
now, and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the holy city,
the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride dressed
for her husband.
3 Then I heard a loud
voice call from the throne, 'Look, here God lives among human beings. He will
make his home among them; they will be his people, and he will be their God,
God-with-them.
4 He will wipe away all
tears from their eyes; there will be no more death, and no more mourning or
sadness or pain. The world of the past has gone.'
5 Then the One sitting
on the throne spoke. 'Look, I am making the whole of creation new. Write this,
"What I am saying is trustworthy and will come true."
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
John 13:31-33, 34-35
31 When he had gone,
Jesus said: Now has the Son of man been glorified, and in him God has been
glorified.
32 If God has been
glorified in him, God will in turn glorify him in himself, and will glorify him
very soon.
33 Little children, I
shall be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and, as I told
the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come.
34 I give you a new
commandment: love one another; you must love one another just as I have loved
you.
35 It is by your love
for one another, that everyone will recognise you as my disciples.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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