Saturday, April 28,
2018
5th Sunday of EASTER
– Year B
5:00 pm Novena to Our Lady
5:30 pm Sunset Mass in English
First Reading
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 9:26-31
26 When he got to
Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him: they
could not believe he was really a disciple.
27 Barnabas, however,
took charge of him, introduced him to the apostles, and explained how the Lord
had appeared to him and spoken to him on his journey, and how he had preached
fearlessly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.
28 Saul now started to
go round with them in Jerusalem, preaching fearlessly in the name of the Lord.
29 But after he had
spoken to the Hellenists and argued with them, they became determined to kill
him.
30 When the brothers got
to know of this, they took him to Caesarea and sent him off from there to
Tarsus.
31 The churches
throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building
themselves up and living in the fear of the Lord; encouraged by the Holy
Spirit, they continued to grow.
“The
Word of the Lord”
PSALMS 22:26-27, 28,
30, 31-32
26 The poor will eat and
be filled, those who seek Yahweh will praise him, 'May your heart live for
ever.'
27 The whole wide world
will remember and return to Yahweh, all the families of nations bow down before
him.
28 For to Yahweh, ruler
of the nations, belongs kingly power!
29 All who prosper on
earth will bow before him, all who go down to the dust will do reverence before
him. And those who are dead,
30 their descendants
will serve him, will proclaim his name to generations
31 still to come; and
these will tell of his saving justice to a people yet unborn: he has fulfilled
it.
Second Reading
First John 3:18-24
18 Children, our love
must be not just words or mere talk, but something active and genuine.
19 This will be the
proof that we belong to the truth, and it will convince us in his presence,
20 even if our own
feelings condemn us, that God is greater than our feelings and knows all
things.
21 My dear friends, if
our own feelings do not condemn us, we can be fearless before God,
22 and whatever we ask
we shall receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is
acceptable to him.
23 His commandment is
this, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we
should love one another as he commanded us.
24 Whoever keeps his
commandments remains in God, and God in him. And this is the proof that he
remains in us: the Spirit that he has given us.
“The
Word of the Lord”
Gospel Reading
JOHN 15:1-8
1 I am the true vine,
and my Father is the vinedresser.
2 Every branch in me
that bears no fruit he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes
to make it bear even more.
3 You are clean
already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you.
4 Remain in me, as I in
you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, unless it remains part of the
vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.
5 I am the vine, you
are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty;
for cut off from me you can do nothing.
6 Anyone who does not
remain in me is thrown away like a branch -- and withers; these branches are
collected and thrown on the fire and are burnt.
7 If you remain in me
and my words remain in you, you may ask for whatever you please and you will
get it.
8 It is to the glory of
my Father that you should bear much fruit and be my disciples.
“The
Gospel of the Lord”
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