Daily Reading for Sunday, May 21st, 2023

Daily Reading for Sunday May 21, 2023

Reading 1, Acts 1:12-14
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 27:1, 4, 7-8
Gospel, John 17:1-11
Reading 2, First Peter 4:13-16
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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.

Reading 2, First Peter 4:13-16

¹³ but in so far as you share in the sufferings of Christ, be glad, so that you may enjoy a much greater gladness when his glory is revealed.

¹⁴ If you are insulted for bearing Christ's name, blessed are you, for on you rests the Spirit of God, the Spirit of glory.

¹⁵ None of you should ever deserve to suffer for being a murderer, a thief, a criminal or an informer;

¹⁶ but if any one of you should suffer for being a Christian, then there must be no shame but thanksgiving to God for bearing this name.

They are waiting for you. Will you answer?