Third Week of Easter - Monday
Third Week of Easter - Monday
First Reading Acts 6:8-15
A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles
They could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit
with which he spoke.
Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working
great wonders and signs among the people. Certain
members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen,
Cyreneans, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia
and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen, but
they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit
with which he spoke. Then they instigated some men
to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous
words against Moses and God.” They stirred up the
people, the elders, and the scribes, accosted him,
seized him, and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
They presented false witnesses who testified, “This
man never stops saying things against this holy
place and the law. For we have heard him claim
that this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this
place and change the customs that Moses handed down
to us.” All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked
intently at him and saw that his face was like
the face of an angel.
The Word of the Lord.
Alleluia, alleluia Mt 4:4b - One does not
live on bread alone but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God. Alleluia, alleluia
Gospel Jn 6:22-29
Do not work for food that perishes but for food
that endures for eternal life.
A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John
[After Jesus had fed the five thousand men, his
disciples saw him walking on the sea.] The next
day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw
that there had been only one boat there, and that
Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the
boat, but only his disciples had left. Other boats
came from Tiberias near the place where they had
eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks. When
the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples
were there, they themselves got into boats and
came to Capernaum looking for Jesus. And when
they found him across the sea they said to him,
“Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered them
and said, “Amen, amen, I say to you, you are
looking for me not because you saw signs but
because you ate the loaves and were filled. Do not
work for food that perishes but for the food that
endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man
will give you. For on him the Father, God, has
set his seal.” So they said to him, “What can we
do to accomplish the works of God?” Jesus answered
and said to them, “This is the work of God, that
you believe in the one he sent.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
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