Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, May 9 2019

Thursday of the Third week of Easter

Thursday of the Third week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

8,26-40.

]The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip,  "Get up and head south on the road  that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route."
]So he got up and set out. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,
]and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
]The Spirit said to Philip, "Go and join up with that chariot."
]Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
]He replied, "How can I, unless someone instructs me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.
]This was the scripture passage he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
]In (his) humiliation justice was denied him. Who will tell of his posterity? For his life is taken from the earth."
]Then the eunuch said to Philip in reply, "I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself, or about someone else?"
]Then Philip opened his mouth and, beginning with this scripture passage, he proclaimed Jesus to him.
]As they traveled along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?"
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]Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and he baptized him.
]When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing.
]Philip came to Azotus, and went about proclaiming the good news to all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

Psalm

Psalms

66(65),8-9.16-17.20.

]Bless our God, you peoples,
loudly sound his praise;
]He has given life to our souls,
and has not let our feet slip.
]Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
]When I appealed to him in words,
praise was on the tip of my tongue.
]Blessed be God who refused me not
my prayer or his kindness!

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

6,44-51.

]Jesus said to the crowds: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
]It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
]Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
]Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
]I am the bread of life.
]Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
]this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
]I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

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