Daily Reading for Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

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Reading 1, Acts 20:17-27

¹⁷ From Miletus he sent for the elders of the church of Ephesus.

¹⁸ When they arrived he addressed these words to them: 'You know what my way of life has been ever since the first day I set foot among you in Asia,

¹⁹ how I have served the Lord in all humility, with all the sorrows and trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews.

²⁰ I have not hesitated to do anything that would be helpful to you; I have preached to you and instructed you both in public and in your homes,

²¹ urging both Jews and Greeks to turn to God and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

²² 'And now you see me on my way to Jerusalem in captivity to the Spirit; I have no idea what will happen to me there,

²³ except that the Holy Spirit, in town after town, has made it clear to me that imprisonment and persecution await me.

²⁴ But I do not place any value on my own life, provided that I complete the mission the Lord Jesus gave me -- to bear witness to the good news of God's grace.

²⁵ 'I now feel sure that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will ever see my face again.

²⁶ And so on this very day I swear that my conscience is clear as far as all of you are concerned,

²⁷ for I have without faltering put before you the whole of God's purpose.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 68:10-11, 20-21

¹⁰ Your family found a home, which you in your generosity provided for the humble.

¹¹ The Lord gave a command, the good news of a countless army.

²⁰ This God of ours is a God who saves; from Lord Yahweh comes escape from death;

²¹ but God smashes the head of his enemies, the long-haired skull of the prowling criminal.

Gospel, John 17:1-11

¹ After saying this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said: Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son so that your Son may glorify you;

² so that, just as you have given him power over all humanity, he may give eternal life to all those you have entrusted to him.

³ And eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

⁴ I have glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.

⁵ Now, Father, glorify me with that glory I had with you before ever the world existed.

⁶ I have revealed your name to those whom you took from the world to give me. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

⁷ Now at last they have recognised that all you have given me comes from you

⁸ for I have given them the teaching you gave to me, and they have indeed accepted it and know for certain that I came from you, and have believed that it was you who sent me.

⁹ It is for them that I pray. I am not praying for the world but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.

¹⁰ All I have is yours and all you have is mine, and in them I am glorified.

¹¹ I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep those you have given me true to your name, so that they may be one like us.