May 10, 2015

Lectio prima

 

Acta Apostolorum 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48

10:25 Et factum est ut, when Peter had entered, Cornelius went to meet him. And falling before his feet, he reverenced.

10:26 Sed vere, Petrus, lifting him up, dixit: "Surge sursus, for I also am only a man.”

10:34 deinde, Petrus, aperiens os suum, dixit: "Conclusi in veritate Deum non esse personarum acceptorem".

10:35 But within every nation, whoever fears him and works justice is acceptable to him.

10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell over all of those who were listening to the Word.

10:45 And the faithful of the circumcision, who had arrived with Peter, were astonished that the grace of the Holy Spirit was also poured out upon the Gentiles.

10:46 For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God.

10:47 Then Peter responded, “How could anyone prohibit water, so that those who have received the Holy Spirit would not be baptized, just as we also have been?"

10:48 And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they begged him to remain with them for some days.

 

Lectio secunda

The First Letter of Saint John 4: 7-10

4:7 dilectissime, 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'

Lectio sancti Evangelii secundum Ioannem 15: 9-17

15:9 sicut dilexit me Pater, sic dilexi te. Manete in dilectione mea.

15:10 Si praecepta mea servaveritis, manebitis in dilectione mea, sicut et ego Patris mei praecepta servavi et maneo in eius amore.

15:11 haec locutus sum vobis, ut gaudium meum in vobis sit, et gaudium vestrum impleatur.

15:12 Hoc est praeceptum meum: ut diligatis invicem, sicut dilexi te.

15:13 Maiorem amorem nemo habet quam hoc: animam suam ponat pro amicis suis.

15:14 Vos amici mei estis, si feceritis quae praecipio vobis.

15:15 Ego non dicam vos servos, Nescit enim servus quid faciat Dominus eius. Sed vocavi vos amicos, quia omnia quaecumque audivi a Patre meo, Notum feci vobis.

15:16 Non vos me elegistis, sed ego elegi te. Et ego posui te, ut exeatis et fructum afferatis, et fructus vester perennet. ergo quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nomine meo, dabit vobis.

15:17 Hoc tibi mando: ut diligatis invicem.