SATURDAY, MAY 08, 2021
FIRST READING
"Go to Macedonia and come to our aid"
A Reading from the book of Acts of the Apostles (16, 1-10)
In those days, Paul, who had left Antioch with Silas, then arrived in Derbé, then in Lystra. There was a disciple there named Timothy; her mother was a Jewess who became a believer, but her father was Greek. In Lystra and Iconium, the brothers bore good witness to him. Paul wanted to take her away; he took him with him and had him circumcised on account of the Jews in the region, for they all knew his father was Greek.
In the cities where Paul and his companions passed, they transmitted the decisions taken by the Apostles and the Elders of Jerusalem, so that they come into force. The churches were growing stronger in the faith and the number of their members was increasing every day. Paul and his companions passed through Phrygia and the land of the Galatians, for the Holy Spirit had prevented them from speaking the Word in the province of Asia. Arrived in Mysia, they tried to reach Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus opposed it. They then skirted Mysia and went down to Troas. During the night Paul had a vision: a Macedonian appeared to him, standing, asking him: "Go to Macedonia and come to our aid." »Following this vision of Paul, we immediately sought to leave for Macedonia,
The Word of the Lord.
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