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Monday, April 12, 2021
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Easter Weekday
First Reading
Acts 4:23-31
23When they were released they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, "Sovereign Lord, who didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
25who by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, didst say by the Holy Spirit, `Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples imagine vain things?
26The kings of the earth set themselves in array, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed' --
27for truly in this city there were gathered together against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
28to do whatever thy hand and thy plan had predestined to take place.
29And now, Lord, look upon their threats, and grant to thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness,
30while thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of thy holy servant Jesus."
31And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God with boldness.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms 2:1-9
1Why do the nations conspire, and the peoples plot in vain?
2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and his anointed, saying,
3"Let us burst their bonds asunder, and cast their cords from us."
4He who sits in the heavens laughs; the LORD has them in derision.
5Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6"I have set my king on Zion, my holy hill."
7I will tell of the decree of the LORD: He said to me, "You are my son, today I have begotten you.
8Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.
9You shall break them with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
Gospel
John 3:1-8
1Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicode'mus, a ruler of the Jews.
2This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
3Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
4Nicode'mus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"
5Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7Do not marvel that I said to you, `You must be born anew.'
8The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit."
