Daily Reading for Monday January 25, 2021 FIRST READING "Arise and receive the baptism, be washed from your sins by calling on the name of Jesus" from the book of Acts of the Apostles (22, 3-16)

Daily Reading for Monday January 25, 2021 

FIRST READING 

"Arise and receive the baptism, be washed from your sins by calling on the name of Jesus" 

from the book of Acts of the Apostles (22, 3-16) 

In those days, Paul said to the people: “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in this city, where, at the school of Gamaliel, I received an education strictly in accordance with the Law of our fathers; I had a jealous ardor for God, like all of you today. I persecuted to death those who follow the Way of the Lord Jesus; I arrested men and women, and threw them in prison; the high priest and the entire elders quorum can testify to this. The latter had given me letters for our brothers in Damascus where I was going: I had to bring back to Jerusalem those from there, in chains, so that they undergo their punishment.

So as I was on my way and approaching Damascus, suddenly around noon, a great light from heaven enveloped me in its clarity. I fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me, “Saul, Saul, why are persecuting me?” And I answered: “Who are you, Lord? - I am Jesus the Nazarene, the one you are persecuting. ” Those who were with me saw the light, but did not hear the voice of the one speaking to me. So I said, "What should I do, Lord?" The Lord answered me: “Get up, go as far as Damascus, and there you will be told all that you are ordered to do.” As I could not see anything anymore, because of the radiance of this light, I went to Damascus, led by the hand of my companions.

Now, Ananias, a religious man according to the Law, to whom all the Jews residing there bore good testimony, came and stood near me and said to me: “Saul, my brother, find his sight.” And I, at the same instant, recovered my sight, and I saw him. He said to me again: “The God of our fathers destined you to know his will, to see him who is righteous and to hear the voice that comes out of his mouth. For you will be for him, before all men, the witness of what you have seen and heard. And now, why delay? Arise and receive baptism, be washed from your sins by calling on his name. ” " 

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