Daily Reading for Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Reading 1, Acts 2:42-47

⁴² These remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.

⁴³ And everyone was filled with awe; the apostles worked many signs and miracles.

⁴⁴ And all who shared the faith owned everything in common;

⁴⁵ they sold their goods and possessions and distributed the proceeds among themselves according to what each one needed.

⁴⁶ Each day, with one heart, they regularly went to the Temple but met in their houses for the breaking of bread; they shared their food gladly and generously;

⁴⁷ they praised God and were looked up to by everyone. Day by day the Lord added to their community those destined to be saved.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24

² Let the House of Israel say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'

³ Let the House of Aaron say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'

⁴ Let those who fear Yahweh say, 'His faithful love endures for ever.'

¹³ I was pushed hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh came to my help.

¹⁴ Yahweh is my strength and my song, he has been my Saviour.

¹⁵ Shouts of joy and salvation, in the tents of the upright, 'Yahweh's right hand is triumphant,

²² The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

²³ This is Yahweh's doing, and we marvel at it.

²⁴ This is the day which Yahweh has made, a day for us to rejoice and be glad.