April 2, 2014
We hope that today is a good day.
◇Daily Readings April 2, 2014
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040214.cfm
◇April 2, 2014 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/14_04_02.mp3
The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
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◇The World English Bible
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Gospel John 5:17-30
17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, so I am working, too."
18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel.
21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgement to the Son,
23 that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He who doesn't honour the Son doesn't honour the Father who sent him.
24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgement, but has passed out of death into life.
25 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live.
26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
27 He also gave him authority to execute judgement, because he is a son of man.
28 Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgement.
30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgement is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
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Isaiah 48:8-15
8 Yes, you didn't hear;
yes, you didn't know;
yes, from of old your ear was not opened:
for I knew that you dealt very treacherously,
and were called a transgressor from the womb.
9 For my name's sake, I will defer my anger,
and for my praise I hold it back for you,
so that I don't cut you off.
10 Behold, I have refined you,
but not as silver.
I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.
11 For my own sake,
for my own sake, I will do it;
for how would my name be profaned?
I will not give my glory to another.
12 "Listen to me, O Jacob,
and Israel my called:
I am he;
I am the first,
I am also the last.
13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth,
and my right hand has spread out the heavens.
when I call to them, they stand up together.
14 "Assemble yourselves, all of you, and hear;
who amongst them has declared these things?
He whom the LORD loves will do what he likes to Babylon,
and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.
15 I, even I, have spoken;
yes, I have called him.
I have brought him,
and he shall make his way prosperous.
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◇King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=John&chapter=5&verse=
◇Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/John.5
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◇Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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