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Today's Readings
Reading I
Acts 17:15, 22—18:1
After Paul’s escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with
instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: “You Athenians, I see
that in every respect you are very religious. For as I walked around
looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar
inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God.’ What therefore you unknowingly
worship, I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and all that
is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in
sanctuaries made by human hands, nor is he served by human hands
because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone
life and breath and everything. He made from one the whole human
race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the
ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions, so that people
might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though
indeed he is not far from any one of us. For ‘In him we live and
move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have said, ‘For
we too are his offspring.’ Since therefore we are the offspring of
God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image
fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that
all people everywhere repent because he has established a day on
which he will ‘judge the world with justice’ through a man he has
appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him
from the dead.” When they heard about resurrection of the
dead, some began to scoff, but others said, “We should like to hear
you on this some other time.” And so Paul left them. But some did
join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member
of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others
with them. After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. or: R.
Alleluia. Praise the LORD from the heavens; praise him in the
heights. Praise him, all you his angels; praise him, all you his
hosts. R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. or: R.
Alleluia. Let the kings of the earth and all peoples, the
princes and all the judges of the earth, Young men too, and maidens,
old men and boys. R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or: R. Alleluia. Praise the name of the LORD, for his name
alone is exalted; His majesty is above earth and heaven. R.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory. or: R. Alleluia.
He has lifted up the horn of his people; Be this his praise from all
his faithful ones, from the children of Israel, the people close to
him. Alleluia. R. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
or: R. Alleluia.
Gospel
Jn 16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you
cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will
guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will
speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are
coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for
this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and
declare it to you.” |
