Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter

Send us Fan MailTuesday, 6 May 2025Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter Antiphons and Readings on p 483 of the Daily Missal First Reading: Acts 7:51-8:1aIn those days:  Stephen said to the people and the elders and the scribes, “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears,  you always resist the Holy Spirit.  As your ancestors did, so do you.  Which of the prophets did not your ancestors persecute?  And they killed those who announced beforehand  the coming of the Righteous One,  whom you have now betrayed and murdered,  you who received the law as delivered by angels  and did not keep it.” Now when they heard these things they were enraged,  and they ground their teeth against him.  But he, full of the Holy Spirit,  gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God,  and Jesus standing at the right hand of God;  and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened,  and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.”  But they cried out with a loud voice  and stopped their ears and rushed together upon him.  Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him;  and the witnesses laid down their garments  at the feet of a young man named Saul.  And as they were stoning Stephen,  he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive spirit.”  And when he had said this, he fell asleep.  And Saul was consenting to his death.Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 31:3bc-4.6 & 7b-8a.17 & 21ab (R. 6a)R/. Into your hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit.  Be a rock of refuge for me, a mighty stronghold to save me. For you are my rock, my stronghold! Lead me, guide me, for the sake of your name.Into your hands I commend my spirit. You will redeem me, O Lord, O faithful God. As for me I trust in the Lord. Let me be glad and rejoice in your mercy.Let your face shine on your servant. Save me in your merciful love. You hide them in the shelter of your presence, secure from human scheming.R/. Into your hands, O Lord, I commit my spirit.Gospel: John 6:30-35At that time:  The people said to Jesus,  “Then what sign do you do,  that we may see, and believe you?  What work do you perform?  Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness;  as it is written,  ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you,  it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven;  my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven  and gives life to the world.” They said to him,  “Lord, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life;  he who comes to me shall not hunger,  and he who believes in me shall never thirst.”