May 12, 2021, Wednesday
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter (White)
Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs (Red) - Opt. Mem.
Saint Pancras, Martyr (Red)- Opt. Mem.
CYCLE B - YEAR I
Lectionary: 293
Acts 17:15, 22—18:1
After Paul’s escorts had taken him to
Athens, they came away with instructions for
Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus
and said:
“You Athenians, I see that in every
respect
you are very religious.
For as I walked around looking
carefully at your shrines,
I even discovered an altar inscribed,
‘To an Unknown God.’
What therefore you unknowingly
worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all
that is in it,
the Lord of heaven and earth,
does not dwell in sanctuaries made by
human hands,
nor is he served by human hands
because he needs anything.
Rather it is he who gives to everyone
life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race
to dwell on the entire surface of the
earth,
and he fixed the ordered seasons and
the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God,
even perhaps grope for him and find
him,
though indeed he is not far from any
one of us.
For ‘In him we live and move and have
our being,’
as even some of your poets have said,
‘For we too are his offspring.’
Since therefore we are the offspring
of God,
we ought not to think that the
divinity is like an image
fashioned from gold, silver, or stone
by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of
ignorance,
but now he demands that all people
everywhere repent
because he has established a day on
which he will ‘judge the world
with justice’ through a man he has
appointed,
and he has provided confirmation for
all
by raising him from the dead.”
When they heard about resurrection of
the dead,
some began to scoff, but others said,
“We should like to hear you on this
some other time.”
And so Paul left them.
But some did join him, and became
believers.
Among them were Dionysius,
a member of the Court of the
Areopagus,
a woman named Damaris, and others with
them.
After this he left Athens and went to
Corinth.
Responsorial Psalm
148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14
R. Heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the LORD from the heavens;
praise him in the heights.
Praise him, all you his angels;
praise him, all you his hosts.
R. Heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Let the kings of the earth and all
peoples,
the princes and all the judges of
the earth,
Young men too, and maidens,
old men and boys.
R. Heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
His majesty is above earth and heaven.
R. Heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
He has lifted up the horn of his
people;
Be this his praise from all his
faithful ones,
from the children of Israel, the
people close to him.
Alleluia.
R. Heaven and earth are full of
your glory.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Alleluia
Jn 14:16
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I will ask the Father
and he will give you another Advocate
to be with you always.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL
Jn 16:12-15
Jesus said to his disciples:
“I have much more to tell you, but you
cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of
truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things
that are coming.
He will glorify me,
because he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is
mine;
for this reason I told you that he
will take from what is mine
and declare it to you.”
REFLECTION:
Here is Jesus, nearing his own death,
and he is pouring out the depth of his
love for his followers. He spoke these
words at the Last Supper, as he
gathered with his disciples, sharing
life with them. His words and actions
comforted and strengthened them in
ways that only the Holy Spirit might
help them to understand.
The love that God the Father has
for Jesus is the love Jesus has for
each of us! Can I ask for this grace,
of knowing and experiencing deep down,
this tremendous love?
PRAYER:
Jesus still speaks to us: prayer helps
us to grow in love, in friendship, in
understanding of the ways of God. The
Spirit assists us, mediating God’s
the message, helping us to recognize how
our way of living conforms to what God
asks of us and revealing how it does
not. Lord, strengthen my ability to
receive and listen to your Spirit, to
remember that your Spirit speaks your
word to me.
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