First Reading: Acts 10:34-43
Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that
God shows no partiality, 35 but in every people anyone who
fears him and practices righteousness is acceptable to
him. 36 You know the message he sent to the people of Israel,
preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all. 37 That
message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after
the baptism that John announced: 38 how God anointed Jesus
of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power; how he
went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed
by the devil, for God was with him. 39 We are witnesses to all
that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to
death by hanging him on a tree, 40 but God raised him on the
third day and allowed him to appear, 41 not to all the people
but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses and who ate
and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He
commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he
is the one ordained by God as judge of the living and the
dead. 43 All the prophets testify about him that everyone who
believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his
name.”
Hear the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
Second Reading 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Now I should remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good
news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in
which also you stand, 2 through 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 turn had received:
that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the
scriptures, 4 and that he was buried, and that he was raised
on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, 5 and that
he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then he
appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at
one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have
died. 7 Then he appeared to James, then to all the
apostles. 8 Last of all, as to someone untimely born, he
appeared also to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of
God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace
towards me has not been in vain. On the contrary, I worked
harder than any of them—though it was not I, but the grace
of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we
proclaim and so you have come to believe.
Hear the word of the Lord
Thanks be to God
