Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter – Year A
First Reading – Acts 7:51-8:1
“You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered, you who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it.”
Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth against him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.” But they cried out with a loud voice and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him; and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting to his death.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 31:3-4, 6-8, 17 and 21
℟ Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Yes, you are my rock and my fortress; for your name’s sake lead me and guide me,
take me out of the net which is hidden for me, for you are my refuge.
℟ Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
You hate k those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the Lord.
I will rejoice and be glad for your merciful love, because you have seen my lowliness, you have taken heed of my adversities,
and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
℟ Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Let me not be put to shame, O Lord, for I call on you; let the wicked be put to shame, let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
Blessed be the Lord, for he has wondrously shown me his merciful love when I was beset as in a besieged city.
℟ Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.
Alleluia – John 6:35
℟ Alleluia!
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.
℟ Alleluia!
Gospel – John 6:30-35
So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform? Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Lord, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.
Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, Ignatius Press, Copyright ⓒ 2006.