Easter

Easter

One in Christ

NEW TESTAMENT READING Galatians 3:1-9, 23-291You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyesthat Jesus Christ was publicly exhibited as crucified! 2The only thing Iwant to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing theworks of the law or by believing what you heard? 3Are you so foolish?Having started with the Spirit, are you now…

Living by Faith

NEW TESTAMENT READING Galatians 1:13-17; 2:11-2113You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violentlypersecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. 14I advancedin Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was farmore zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. 15But when God, whohad set me apart before I was born and…

The Council at Jerusalem

NEW TESTAMENT READING Acts 15:1-181Then certain individuals came down from Judea and were teaching thebrothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses,you cannot be saved.” 2And after Paul and Barnabas had no smalldissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of theothers were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to discuss this question…

Stephen’s Witness

NEW TESTAMENT READING Acts 6:1—7:2a, 44-606Now during those days, when the disciples were increasing in number,the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widowswere being neglected in the daily distribution of food. 2And the twelvecalled together the whole community of the disciples and said, “It is notright that we should neglect the word of God in order…

Easter Sunday: The Day of Resurrection

GOSPEL READING Luke 24:1-12Reader: The Holy Gospel according to Luke, the 24th chapter.All: Glory to you, O Lord.24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb,taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolledaway from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find thebody. 4 While they were perplexed about this,…

The 7th Sunday of Easter

 1 Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57 Now I would remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, 2through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain. 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in…

The 6th Sunday of Easter

 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so…

4th Sunday of Easter

Acts 17:1-9                                         After Paul and Silas had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. 2And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three sabbath days argued with them from the scriptures, 3explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and to rise…