MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 FIRST READING “When you became believers, did you receive the Holy Spirit? " A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (19, 1-8)

MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 

FIRST READING 

“When you became believers, did you receive the Holy Spirit? " 

A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (19, 1-8) 

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul was crossing the high country; he arrived at Ephesus, where he found some disciples. He asked them: “When you became believers, did you receive the Holy Spirit? They replied, "We haven't even heard that there is a Holy Spirit." Paul continued: "So what baptism have you received? They replied: "That of John the Baptist. Paul then said: "John was giving a baptism of conversion: he was telling the people to believe in him who was to come after him, that is to say in Jesus. "

After hearing it, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they began to speak in mysterious tongues and to prophesy. They were a dozen men in total. Paul went to the synagogue, where he spoke confidently for three months; he argued and used persuasive arguments about the kingdom of God. 

The Word of the Lord.

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