IN CONTEXT – Pentecost Sunday 5/27/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 2:1-11. When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as [more]

IN CONTEXT – 7th Sunday of Easter 5/20/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26. Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said, “Brethren, the scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David, concerning Judas who was guide to [more]

IN CONTEXT – 6th Sunday of Easter 5/13/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48. When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.” And Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, [more]

IN CONTEXT – 5th Sunday of Easter 5/6/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 9:26-31. When Saul had come to Jerusalem he attempted to join the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on [more]

IN CONTEXT – 4th Sunday of Easter 4/29/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 4:8-12. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, and to [more]

IN CONTEXT – 3rd Sunday of Easter 4/22/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 3:13-15, 17-19. Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. But you [more]

IN CONTEXT – Divine Mercy Sunday 4/15/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 4:32-35. The company of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the Apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection [more]

IN CONTEXT – Easter Sunday 4/8/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Acts 10:34, 37-43. Peter opened his mouth and said: “You know the word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached: how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good [more]

IN CONTEXT – Palm Sunday 4/1/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Isaiah 50:4-7. The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught. The Lord [more]

IN CONTEXT – 5th Sunday of Lent 3/25/2012

First Reading Second Reading Gospel First ReadingFIRST READING: Jeremiah 31:31-34. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to bring them [more]