Mass Readings - Sunday, 26 May 2019

Liturgical Readings 
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge


FIRST READING     Acts of the Apostles 15:1-2. 22-29
It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle you with any
burden beyond these essentials

Some men came down from Judaea and taught the brothers, ‘Unless you have
yourselves circumcised in the tradition of Moses you cannot be saved’. This led to
disagreement, and after Paul and Barnabas had had a long argument with these men it
was arranged that Paul and Barnabas and others of the church should go up to
Jerusalem and discuss the problem with the apostles and elders.
Then the apostles and elders decided to choose delegates to send to Antioch with Paul
and Barnabas; the whole church concurred with this. They chose Judas known as
Barsabbas and Silas, both leading men in the brotherhood, and gave them this letter to
take with them:
‘The apostles and elders, your brothers, send greetings to the brothers of pagan birth in
Antioch, Syria and Cilicia. We hear that some of our members have disturbed you with
their demands and have unsettled your minds. They acted without any authority from
us; and so we have decided unanimously to elect delegates and to send them to you
with Barnabas and Paul, men we highly respect who have dedicated their lives to the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accordingly we are sending you Judas and Silas, who
will confirm by word of mouth what we have written in this letter. It has been decided by
the Holy Spirit and by ourselves not to saddle you with any burden beyond these
essentials: you are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols; from blood, from the meat of
strangled animals and from fornication. Avoid these, and you will do what is right.
Farewell.’

The Word of the Lord


Responsorial Psalm      Ps 66

Response
Let the peoples praise you, 0 God;
let all the peoples praise you.

Or Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

1. O God, be gracious and bless us
and let your face shed its light upon us.
So will your ways be known upon earth.
and all nations learn your saving help.             Response

2. Let the nations be glad and exult
for you rule the world with justice.
With fairness you rule the peoples,
you guide the nations on earth.                         Response

3. Let the peoples praise you, 0 God;
let all the peoples praise you.
May God still give us his blessing
till the ends of the earth revere him.                  Response



SECOND READING      Apocalypse 21:10-14. 22-23
He showed me the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven.

In the spirit, he took me to the top of an enormous high mountain and showed me
Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God out of heaven. It had all the radiant
glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond. The walls
of it were of a great height, and had twelve gates; at each of the twelve gates there was
an angel, and over the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel; on
the east there were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and
on the west three gates. The city walls stood on twelve foundation stones, each one of
which bore the name of one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
I saw that there was no temple in the city since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb
were themselves the temple, and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light,
since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and the Lamb was a lighted torch for it.

The Word of the Lord


Gospel Acclamation     Jn 14: 23
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus said: ‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him, and we shall come to him.
Alleluia!



GOSPEL      John 14:23-29
The Holy Spirit, will remind you of all I have said to you.

Jesus said to his disciples:
‘If anyone loves me he will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we shall come to him
and make our home with him.
Those who do not love me do not keep my words.
And my word is not my own:
it is the word of the one who sent me.
I have said these things to you
while still with you;
but the Advocate, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you everything
and remind you of all I have said to you.
Peace I bequeath to you,
my own peace I give you,
a peace the world cannot give,
this is my gift to you.
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You heard me say:
I am going away, and shall return.
If you loved me you would have been glad to know that I am going to the Father,
for the Father is greater than I.
I have told you this now before it happens,
so that when it does happen you may believe.

The Gospel of the Lord