Reading at Holy Mass today : And by faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you.

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Thursday in the Octave of Easter

Lectionary: 264

Reading I Acts 3:11-26

As the crippled man who had been cured clung  to Peter and John, all the 

people hurried in amazement toward them in the portico called

“Solomon’s Portico.”

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,“You children of Israel,

why are you amazed at this, and why do you look so intently at us as 

if we had made him walk by our own power or piety? 

The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,

the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed 

over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to release him.

You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer

 be released to you. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him

 from the dead; of this we are witnesses.

And by faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know,

 his name has made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given

him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you.

Now I know, brothers and sisters, that you acted out of ignorance,

 just as yourleaders did;but God has thus brought to fulfillment what

 he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets,

that his Christ would suffer.Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your

 sins may be wiped away,and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment

and send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus, whom 

heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which God spoke

 through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.

For Moses said:A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you    from among your own kin;to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.Everyone who does not listen to that prophetwill be cut off from the people. 

   “Moreover, all the prophets who spoke, from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”

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