Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Easter
Acts 9:26-31/1 Jn 3:18-24/Jn 15:1-8
“[Now] this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.”
1 John 3:19-20, NABRE
Monday: Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church
Acts 14:5-18/Jn 14:21-26
“When there was an attempt by both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their leaders, to attack and stone them, they realized it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding countryside, where they continued to proclaim the good news.”
Acts 14:5-7, NABRE
Tuesday
Acts 14:19-28/Jn 14:27-31a
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid. ”
John 14:27, NABRE
Wednesday
Acts 15:1-6/Jn 15:1-8
“When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, as well as by the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported what God had done with them.”
Acts 15:4, NABRE
Thursday: Saint Athanasius, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Acts 15:7-21/Jn 15:9-11
“As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. ”
John 15:9, NRSVCE
Friday: Saints Philip and James, Apostles
1 Cor 15:1-8/Jn 14:6-14
“For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures”
1 Corinthians 15:3-4, NRSVCE
Saturday
Acts 16:1-10/Jn 15:18-21
“Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him; and he took him and had him circumcised because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went from town to town, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem.”
Acts 16:3-4, NRSVCE