May 18, 2014
We hope that today is a good day.
◇Daily Readings May 18, 2014
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/051814.cfm
◇May 18, 2014 Daily Mass Reading
http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/14_05_18.mp3
The New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)
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◇The World English Bible
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Gospel John 14:1-12
1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going. How can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him."
8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works' sake.
12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
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Acts 6:1-7
1 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists* against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
2 The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
3 Therefore select from amongst you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
4 But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."
5 These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
6 whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
7 The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
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1 Peter 2:4-9
4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
6 Because it is contained in Scripture,
"Behold,* I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious:
He who believes in him will not be disappointed."☆
7 For you who believe therefore is the honour, but for those who are disobedient,
"The stone which the builders rejected,
has become the chief cornerstone,"☆
8 and,
"a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence."☆
For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
*2:6: "Behold", from "??????" or "?δο?", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
☆2:6: Isaiah 28:16
☆2:7: Psalm 118:22
☆2:8: Isaiah 8:14
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◇King James Version Bible Online
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=John&chapter=14&verse=
◇Zondervan King James Audio Bible
http://www.biblegateway.com/audio/dramatized/kjv/John.14
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◇Douay-Rheims Bible
http://www.drbo.org/
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