Live Daily Mass 26th April 2021 St Peter & Paul’s Church Ireland
Strengthened by His sacraments, and guided by His Word and driven to love our neighbor as Christ Himself. Let’s participate in this “DAILY MASS”.
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Daily Reading for Monday April 26, 2021
Reading 1, Acts 11:1-18
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 42:2-3; 43:3, 4
Gospel, John 10:1-10
Reading 1, Acts 11:1-18
1 The apostles and the brothers in Judaea heard that gentiles too had accepted the word of God,
2 and when Peter came up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers protested to him
3 and said, ‘So you have been visiting the uncircumcised and eating with them!’
4 Peter in reply gave them the details point by point,
5 ‘One day, when I was in the town of Jaffa,’ he began, ‘I fell into a trance as I was praying and had a vision of something like a big sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners. This sheet came right down beside me.
6 I looked carefully into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds of heaven.
7 Then I heard a voice that said to me, “Now, Peter, kill and eat!”
8 But I answered, “Certainly not, Lord; nothing profane or unclean has ever crossed my lips.”
9 And a second time the voice spoke from heaven, “What God has made clean, you have no right to call profane.”
10 This was repeated three times, before the whole of it was drawn up to heaven again.
11 ‘Just at that moment, three men stopped outside the house where we were staying; they had been sent from Caesarea to fetch me,
12 and the Spirit told me to have no hesitation about going back with them. The six brothers here came with me as well, and we entered the man’s house.
13 He told us he had seen an angel standing in his house who said, “Send to Jaffa and fetch Simon known as Peter;
14 he has a message for you that will save you and your entire household.”
15 ‘I had scarcely begun to speak when the Holy Spirit came down on them in the same way as it came on us at the beginning,
16 and I remembered that the Lord had said, “John baptised with water, but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit.”
17 I realised then that God was giving them the identical gift he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ; and who was I to stand in God’s way?’
18 This account satisfied them, and they gave glory to God, saying, ‘God has clearly granted to the gentiles too the repentance that leads to life.’
