Daily Reading for Sunday, May 5th, 2024

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!