Reading 1, Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48

²⁵ and as Peter reached the house Cornelius went out to meet him, fell at his feet and did him reverence.

²⁶ But Peter helped him up. 'Stand up,' he said, ' after all, I am only a man!'

³⁴ Then Peter addressed them, 'I now really understand', he said, 'that God has no favourites,

³⁵ but that anybody of any nationality who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

⁴⁴ While Peter was still speaking the Holy Spirit came down on all the listeners.

⁴⁵ Jewish believers who had accompanied Peter were all astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit should be poured out on gentiles too,

⁴⁶ since they could hear them speaking strange languages and proclaiming the greatness of God. Peter himself then said,

⁴⁷ 'Could anyone refuse the water of baptism to these people, now they have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?'

⁴⁸ He then gave orders for them to be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. Afterwards they begged him to stay on for some days.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 98:1, 2-3, 3-4

¹ [Psalm] Sing a new song to Yahweh, for he has performed wonders, his saving power is in his right hand and his holy arm.

² Yahweh has made known his saving power, revealed his saving justice for the nations to see,

³ mindful of his faithful love and his constancy to the House of Israel. The whole wide world has seen the saving power of our God.

⁴ Acclaim Yahweh, all the earth, burst into shouts of joy!

Gospel, John 15:9-17

⁹ I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

¹⁰ If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

¹¹ I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.

¹² This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.

¹³ No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

¹⁵ I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.

¹⁶ You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.

¹⁷ My command to you is to love one another.

Reading 2, First John 4:7-10

⁷ My dear friends, let us love one another, since love is from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.

⁸ Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love.

⁹ This is the revelation of God's love for us, that God sent his only Son into the world that we might have life through him.

¹⁰ Love consists in this: it is not we who loved God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins.

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