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Year 2 Weekday Reading. (5/5/10)
Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
Reading 1
Some
who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers,
“Unless
you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice,
you
cannot be saved.”
Because
there arose no little dissension and debate
by Paul
and Barnabas with them,
it was
decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others
should go
up to Jerusalem to the Apostles and presbyters
about
this question.
They
were sent on their journey by the Church,
and
passed through Phoenicia and Samaria
telling
of the conversion of the Gentiles,
and
brought great joy to all the brethren.
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.
But
some from the party of the Pharisees who had become believers
stood up
and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them
and direct
them to observe the Mosaic law.”
The Apostles and the
presbyters met together to see about this matter.
Responsorial Psalm
R.
(see 1) Let us go rejoicing
to the house of the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
I
rejoiced because they said to me,
“We
will go up to the house of the LORD.”
And
now we have set foot
within
your gates, O Jerusalem.
R.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Jerusalem,
built as a city
with
compact unity.
To
it the tribes go up,
the
tribes of the LORD.
R.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
According
to the decree for Israel,
to give
thanks to the name of the LORD.
In
it are set up judgment seats,
seats for
the house of David.
R.
Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
or:
R.
Alleluia.
Gospel
Jesus
said to his disciples:
“I
am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He
takes away every branch in me that does not bear
fruit,
and
everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You
are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain
in me, as I remain in you.
Just
as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own
unless it
remains on the vine,
so
neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am
the vine, you are the branches.
Whoever
remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit,
because
without me you can do nothing.
Anyone
who does not remain in me
will be
thrown out like a branch and wither;
people
will gather them and throw them into a fire
and they
will be burned.
If
you remain in me and my words remain in you,
ask for
whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By
this is my Father glorified,
that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
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