MASS READINGS FOR 7th SUNDAY WITHIN EASTERTIDE

First reading
Acts 1:15-17,20-26 ©

‘Let someone else take his office’

One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers – there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: ‘Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who offered himself as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus – after having been one of our number and actually sharing this ministry of ours. Now in the Book of Psalms it says:
Let someone else take his office. [Read more…]

READINGS FOR SUNDAY MASS
6th SUNDAY IN EASTERTIDE

First reading
Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48 

The pagans have received the Holy Spirit just as much as we have.

As Peter reached the house Cornelius went out to meet him, knelt at his feet and prostrated himself. But Peter helped him up. ‘Stand up,’ he said ‘I am only a man after all!’
Then Peter addressed them: ‘The truth I have now come to realise’ he said ‘is that God does not have favourites, but that anybody of any nationality who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him.’ [Read more…]