Daily Reading for Friday, May 16th, 2025

Reading 1, Acts 13:26-33

²⁶ 'My brothers, sons of Abraham's race, and all you godfearers, this message of salvation is meant for you.

²⁷ What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on every Sabbath.

²⁸ Though they found nothing to justify his execution, they condemned him and asked Pilate to have him put to death.

²⁹ When they had carried out everything that scripture foretells about him they took him down from the tree and buried him in a tomb.

³⁰ But God raised him from the dead,

³¹ and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem: and it is these same companions of his who are now his witnesses before our people.

³² 'We have come here to tell you the good news that the promise made to our ancestors has come about.

³³ God has fulfilled it to their children by raising Jesus from the dead. As scripture says in the psalms: You are my son: today I have fathered you.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 2:6-7, 8-9, 10-11

⁶ 'I myself have anointed my king on Zion my holy mountain.'

⁷ I will proclaim the decree of Yahweh: He said to me, 'You are my son, today have I fathered you.

⁸ Ask of me, and I shall give you the nations as your birthright, the whole wide world as your possession.

⁹ With an iron sceptre you will break them, shatter them like so many pots.'

¹⁰ So now, you kings, come to your senses, you earthly rulers, learn your lesson!

¹¹ In fear be submissive to Yahweh;

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