1ST READING
Paul
does not want to waste his time preaching to people who refuse to
listen or fairly consider what he has to say. Therefore, he turns his
back on the Jewish communities in the cities he is working and proclaims
the Gospel to the Gentiles. Lo and behold, they are receptive to the
Good News and are baptized. We will never know why the Jews rejected the
Gospel, but we will be forever grateful that Paul was able to blaze a
new path in proclaiming the Gospel to the Gentiles.
Acts 18:1-8
1 Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 There he met a Jew named Aquila,
a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife
Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. He
went to visit them 3 and, because he practiced the same trade, stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 Every sabbath, he entered into discussions in the synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks. 5 When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the Word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 6 When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out
his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your heads! I am
clearof responsibility. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man named Titus Justus, a worshiper of God; his house was next to a synagogue. 8 Crispus,
the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord along with his
entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and
were baptized.
P S A L M
Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4
R: The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.
1 Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm. (R) 2 The Lord has made his salvation known, in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice. 3 He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel. (R) All the ends of the earth have seen the
salvation by our God. 4 Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; break into song; sing praise. (R)
GOSPEL
Jesus
cryptically suggests to His disciples that He is going to leave them
for a while and then return. He is actually speaking of His death on the
cross and then His return at the resurrection. It is this dynamic of
dying and then rising that marks the pattern of the Christian life —
dying to sin in our lives and then rising again to live lives of
holiness.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
I will not leave you orphans, says the Lord; I will come back to you, and your hearts will rejoice.
John 16:16-20
16 Jesus
said to his disciples: “A little while and you will no longer see me,
and again a little while later and you will see me.” 17 So
some of his disciples said to one another, “What does this mean that he
is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a
little while and you will see me,’ and ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” 18 So they said, “What is this ‘little while’ of which he speaks? We do not know what he means.” 19 Jesus
knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Are you
discussing with one another what I said, ‘A little while and you will
not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? 20 Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.”
LIST
think:
It is the dynamic of dying and then rising that marks the pattern of
the Christian life — dying to sin in our lives and then rising again to
live lives of holiness.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: __________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Deuteronomy 23-26
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