Mass Readings - Sunday , 9th June 2019

Liturgical Readings for : Sunday, 9th June, 2019
Today's Readings
Léachtaí Gaeilge


FIRST READING    Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak.

When the day of the Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And
suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the
house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under
heaven. And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered,
because each one heard them speaking in his own language. And they were amazed
and wondered, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? And how is it that
we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites
and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and
Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own
tongues the mighty works of God.”

The Word of the Lord


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RESPONSORIAL PSALM      PS 103

Response:  Send forth your Spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.

1. Bless the Lord, my soul!
Lord God, how great you are.
How many are your works, O Lord!
The earth is full of your riches.                                  Response

2. You take back your Spirit, they die,
returning to the dust from which they came.
You send forth your Spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the earth                            Response

3. May the glory of the Lord last for ever!
May the Lord rejoice in his works!
May my thoughts be pleasing to him.

I find my joy in the Lord.                                            Response


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SECOND READING      1 Corinthians 12:3-7. 12-13
In the one Spirit we were all baptised.

No one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of
gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and
there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body,
though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized
into one body – Jews or Greeks, slaves or free – and all were made to drink of one
Spirit.

The Word of the Lord


SEQUENCE

Holy Spirit, Lord of Light, from the clear celestial height thy pure beaming radiance give.
Come, thou Father of the poor, come with treasures which endure; come, thou light of
all that live!

Thou, of all consolers best, thou, the soul’s delightful guest, dost refreshing peace
bestow; thou in toil art comfort sweet; pleasant coolness in the heat; solace in the midst
of woe.

Light immortal, light divine, visit thou these hearts of thine, and our inmost being fill: if
thou takest thy grace away, nothing pure in man will stay; all his good is turned to ill.

Heal our wounds, our strength renew; on our dryness pour thy dew; wash the stain of
guilt away: bend the stubborn heart and will; melt the frozen, warm the chill; guide the
steps that go astray.

Thou, on us who evermore thee confess and thee adore, with thy sevenfold gifts
descend: Give us comfort when we die; give us life with thee on high; give us joys that
never end.


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Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful,
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Alleluia!


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THE GOSPEL       John 20:19-23
As the Father sent me, so am I sending you: receive the Holy Spirit.

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the
disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to
them, “Peace be with you.” When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his
side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again,
“Peace be with you,
As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them,
“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven;
if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

The Gospel of the Lord