Kan 10, 2015

First Reading

 

The Acts of the Apostles 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48

10:25 Og det skete det, da Peter var kommet ind, Cornelius gik ham i møde. Og falder for hans fødder, han ærede.

10:26 Men virkelig, Peter, løfter ham op, sagde: "Stig op, for jeg er også kun et menneske."

10:34 Derefter, Peter, åbner sin mund, sagde: "Jeg har i sandhed konkluderet, at Gud ikke respekterer personer.

10:35 Men inden for enhver nation, den, som frygter ham og gør retfærdighed, er ham velbehagelig.

10:44 Mens Peter stadig talte disse ord, Helligånden faldt over alle dem, der lyttede til Ordet.

10:45 Og de troende i omskærelsen, som var ankommet med Peter, var forbavsede over, at Helligåndens nåde også blev udgydt over hedningerne.

10:46 For de hørte dem tale i tunger og ophøje Gud.

10:47 Så svarede Peter, "Hvordan kunne nogen forbyde vand, for at de, der har modtaget Helligånden, ikke skulle blive døbt, ligesom vi også har været?”

10:48 Og han befalede dem at blive døbt i Herren Jesu Kristi navn. Så bad de ham om at blive hos dem nogle dage.

 

Second Reading

The First Letter of Saint John 4: 7-10

4:7 Mest elskede, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

4:8 Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

4:9 The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

4:10 In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.

 

Evangelium

The Holy Gospel According to John 15: 9-17

15:9 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.

15:10 If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father’s precepts and I abide in his love.

15:11 These things I have spoken to you, so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be fulfilled.

15:12 This is my precept: that you love one another, just as I have loved you.

15:13 No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

15:14 You are my friends, if you do what I instruct you.

15:15 I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

15:16 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.

15:17 This I command you: that you love one another.