Octave of Easter - Thursday
Octave of Easter - Thursday
First Reading Acts 3:11-26
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
The author of life you put to death, but God raised him
from the dead.
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter
and John, all the people hurried in amazement toward
them in the portico called “Solomon’s Portico.” When
Peter saw this, he addressed the people, “You children
of Israel, why are you amazed at this, and why do you
look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by
our own power or piety? The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has
glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed over and
denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to
release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and
asked that a murderer be released to you. The author
of life you put to death, but God raised him from the
dead; of this we are witnesses. And by faith in his
name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has
made strong, and the faith that comes through it has
given him this perfect health, in the presence of all
of you. Now I know, brothers and sisters, that you
acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had
announced beforehand through the mouth of all the
prophets, that his Christ would suffer. Repent, therefore,
and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, and
that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment and
send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,
whom heaven must receive until the times of universal
restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of
his holy prophets from of old. For Moses said:
A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up
for you from among your own kin; to him you shall
listen in all that he may say to you. Everyone who
does not listen to that prophet will be cut off
from the people.
“Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel
and those afterwards, also announced these days.
You are the children of the prophets and of the
covenant that God made with your ancestors when he
said to Abraham, In your offspring all the
families of the earth shall be blessed. For you
first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless
you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
The Word of the Lord.
Alleluia, alleluia Ps 118:24
This is the day the Lord has made:
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
Alleluia, alleluia
Gospel Lk 24:35-38
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to LUke
Thus it was written that the Christ would suffer and
rise from the dead on the third day.
While they were still speaking about his, he stood in
their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.”
But they were startled and terrified and thought that
they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why
are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your
hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I
myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not
have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as
he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were
amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to
eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it
and ate it in front of them.
He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to
you while I was still with you, that everything
written about me in the law of Moses and in the
prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he
opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the
Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the
third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness
of sins, would be preached in his name to all the
nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses
of these things.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
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