Liturgical Readings for the Week of May 12th, 2024

April 16, 2024

Sunday: The Ascension of the LORD

Acts 1:1-11/Eph 1:17-23 or Eph 4:1-13 or 4:1-7, 11-13/Mk 16:15-20

He said to them, “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.”

Mark 16:1-16

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Monday

Acts 19:1-8/Jn 16:29-33

Paul then said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus.” When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 19:4-5, NABRE

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Tuesday

Acts 1:15-17, 20-26/Jn 15:9-17

As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.”

John 15:9-10, NABRE

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Wednesday

Acts 20:28-38/Jn 17:11b-19

“Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the church of God that he acquired with his own blood.”

Acts 20:28, NABRE

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Thursday

Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Jn 17:20-26

I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. “

John 17:20-21, NRSVCE

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Friday

Acts 25:13b-21/Jn 21:15-19

When the accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the crimes[a] that I was expecting. Instead they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.”

Acts 25:18-19, NRSVCE

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Saturday

Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Jn 21:20-25

This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and has written them, and we know that his testimony is true. But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.”

John 21:24-25, NRSVCE

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