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Monday, April 11, 2016
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St. Stanislaus, Bishop, Martyr (Memorial)
First Option
Second Option
First Reading
Acts 6:8-15
8And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.
9Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyreʹnians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Ciliʹcia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen.
10But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.
11Then they secretly instigated men, who said, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
12And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council,
13and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law;
14for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”
15And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 119:23-24, 26-27, 29-30
23Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.
24Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counselors.
26When I told of my ways, thou didst answer me; teach me thy statutes!
27Make me understand the way of thy precepts, and I will meditate on thy wondrous works.
29Put false ways far from me; and graciously teach me thy law!
30I have chosen the way of faithfulness, I set thy ordinances before me.
Gospel
John 6:22-29
22On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone.
23However, boats from Tibeʹri-as came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.
24So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Caperʹna-um, seeking Jesus.
25When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
26Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
27Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you; for on him has God the Father set his seal.”
28Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
First Reading
Revelation 12:10-12
10And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
11And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
12Rejoice then, O heaven and you that dwell therein! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!”
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 34:2-9
1I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the afflicted hear and be glad.
3O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
4I sought the LORD, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
5Look to him, and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.
6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
7The angel of the LORD encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.
8O taste and see that the LORD is good! Happy is the man who takes refuge in him!
Gospel
John 17:11-19
11And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
12While I was with them, I kept them in thy name, which thou hast given me; I have guarded them, and none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13But now I am coming to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14I have given them thy word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15I do not pray that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil one.
16They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.
18As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
19And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.