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Seventh Week of Easter - Tuesday

May 22nd, 2007

Seventh Week of Easter - Tuesday

First Reading Acts 20:17-27

I am finishing my course and the ministry that I received
from the Lord Jesus.

A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles

From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus
summoned. When they came to him, he addressed them, “You know
how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came
to the province of Asia. I served the Lord with all humility
and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the
plots of the Jews, and I did not at all shrink from telling
you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public
or in your homes. I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and
Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem.
What will happen to me there I do not know, except that in
one city after another the Holy Spirit has been warning me
that imprisonment and hardships await me. Yet I consider life
of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and
the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear
witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.

“But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the
kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again. And
so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible
for the blood of any of you, for I did not shrink from
proclaiming to you the entire plan of God.”

The Word of the Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia Jn 14:16 - I will ask the Father
and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always.
Alleluia, alleluia

Gospel Jn 17:1-11a

Father, glorify your Son.

A Reading from the Holy Gospel According to John

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour
has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify
you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that
your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this
is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God,
and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on
earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now
glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with
you before the world began.

“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the
world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and
they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you
gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have
given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood
that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent
me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the
ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything
of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have
been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the
world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to
you.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

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