LITURGICAL READING for the week of April 12-18, 2020
Sunday, April 12: EASTER SUNDAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD
Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Col 3:1-4/Jn 20:1-9/ Mt 28:1-10, Lk 24:13-35
Luke 24:30-35 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
30 And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. 31 With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. 32 Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning [within us] while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?” 33 So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them 34 who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” 35 Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
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Monday, April 13: MONDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 2:14, 22-33/Mt 28:8-15
Acts 2:25-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
25 For David says concerning him,
‘I saw the Lord always before me,
for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken;
26 therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced;
moreover my flesh will live in hope.
27 For you will not abandon my soul to Hades,
or let your Holy One experience corruption.
28 You have made known to me the ways of life;
you will make me full of gladness with your presence.
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Tuesday, April 14: TUESDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 2:36-41/Jn 20:11-18
John 20:15-18 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew,[b] “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”; and she told them that he had said these things to her.
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Wednesday, April 15: WEDNESDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 3:1-10/Lk 24:13-35
Acts 3:1-10 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
Cure of a Crippled Beggar. 1 [a]Now Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o’clock hour of prayer.[b] 2 And a man crippled from birth was carried and placed at the gate of the temple called “the Beautiful Gate” every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms. 4 But Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, “Look at us.” 5 He paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
6 [c]Peter said, “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, [rise and] walk.” 7 Then Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles grew strong. 8 He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. 9 When all the people saw him walking and praising God, 10 they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him.
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Thursday, April 16: THURSDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 3:11-26/Lk 24:35-48
Luke 24:44-48 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
44 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.” 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. 46 [c]And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day 47 and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.
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Friday, April 17: FRIDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 4:1-12/Jn 21:1-14
Acts 4:7-12 New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
7 They brought them into their presence and questioned them, “By what power or by what name have you done this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, “Leaders of the people and elders: 9 If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, 10 then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. 11 He is ‘the stone rejected by you,[b] the builders, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 [c]There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”
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Saturday, April 18: SATURDAY WITHIN OCTAVE OF EASTER
Acts 4:13-21/Mk 16:9-15
Mark 16:12-15 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
12 After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. 13 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
14 Later he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.[a] 15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news[b] to the whole creation.
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