MONDAY APRIL 26, 2021 FIRST READING “So therefore, even to the nations, God has given the conversion which brings into life! " A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (11, 1-18)

MONDAY APRIL 26, 2021 

FIRST READING 

“So therefore, even to the nations, God has given the conversion which brings into life! " 

A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (11, 1-18) 

In those days the Apostles and the brethren who were in Judea had learned that the nations, too, had received the word of God. When Peter returned to Jerusalem, those who were originally Jewish took him to task, saying: "You entered the house of men who are not circumcised, and you ate with them!" Then Peter took up the matter from the beginning and told them everything in order, saying: "I was in the city of Jaffa, praying, and this is the vision I had in an ecstasy: it was an object which descended. It looked like a large canvas held at the four corners; coming from the sky, it landed near me. Fixing my eyes on her, I examined her and saw the quadrupeds of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles and the birds of the air. I heard a voice saying to me: “Get up, Peter, offer them as a sacrifice, and eat! ” I replied: “Certainly not, Lord! Never has any forbidden or unclean food entered my mouth. ” A second time from heaven the voice answered: "What God has declared pure, you do not declare it forbidden." It happened three times, then it all went back to heaven. And behold, at that very moment, in front of the house where I was, three men came up who had been sent to me from Caesarea. The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. The six brethren that's here with me, and we went into Centurion Cornelius. He told us how he saw the angel standing in his house and saying, “Send someone to Jaffa to look for Simon nicknamed Peter. He will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house. As I spoke, the Holy Spirit descended on those who were there, as he had come on us in the beginning. Then I remembered the word that the Lord had said: “John baptized with water, but you, it is in the Holy Spirit that you will be baptized.” And if God gave them the same gift as we did, because they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to prevent God's action? "Hearing these words, they calmed down and they gave glory to God, saying:" So therefore, even to the nations, God has given the conversion which brings into life! " it is in the Holy Spirit that you will be baptized. ” And if God gave them the same gift as we did, because they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to prevent God's action? "Hearing these words, they calmed down and they gave glory to God, saying:" So therefore, even to the nations, God has given the conversion which brings into life! " it is in the Holy Spirit that you will be baptized. ” And if God gave them the same gift as we did, because they believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to prevent God's action? "Hearing these words, they calmed down and they gave glory to God, saying:" So therefore, even to the nations, God has given the conversion which brings into life! " 

The Word of the Lord.

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