Kunnen 10, 2015

First Reading

 

De Handelingen van de Apostelen 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48

10:25 En dat gebeurde, toen Peter binnen was, Cornelius ging hem tegemoet. En vallen voor zijn voeten, hij eerbiedigde.

10:26 Toch echt, Pieter, hem optillen, gezegd: "Sta op, want ook ik ben maar een mens.”

10:34 Dan, Pieter, zijn mond openen, gezegd: “Ik heb naar waarheid geconcludeerd dat God geen aannemer des persoons is.

10:35 Maar binnen elke natie, wie hem vreest en recht doet, is voor hem aanvaardbaar.

10:44 Terwijl Peter deze woorden nog sprak, de Heilige Geest viel over allen die naar het Woord luisterden.

10:45 En de gelovigen van de besnijdenis, die met Peter was aangekomen, waren verbaasd dat de genade van de Heilige Geest ook over de heidenen werd uitgestort.

10:46 Want zij hoorden hen in tongen spreken en God verheerlijken.

10:47 Toen reageerde Peter, “Hoe kan iemand water verbieden, zodat degenen die de Heilige Geest hebben ontvangen niet gedoopt zouden worden, net zoals wij ook zijn geweest?”

10:48 En hij beval hen te dopen in de naam van de Heer Jezus Christus. Toen smeekten ze hem om een ​​paar dagen bij hen te blijven.

 

Second Reading

The First Letter of Saint John 4: 7-10

4:7 Most beloved, 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.

 

Evangelie

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.