Sunday, 11 May 2025
4th Sunday of Easter – Vocations Sunday - Cycle C
Antiphons on p. 495 and Readings on p. 499 of the Daily Missal and p. 837 of the Sunday Missal
First Reading: Acts 13:14, 43-52
In those days:
Paul and Barnabas passed on from Perga
and came to Antioch of Pisidia.
And on the sabbath day,
they went into the synagogue and sat down.
And many Jews and devout converts to Judaism
followed Paul and Barnabas,
who spoke to them
and urged them to continue in the grace of God.
The next sabbath
almost the whole city gathered together
to hear the word of God.
But when the Jews saw the multitudes,
they were filled with jealousy,
and contradicted what was spoken by Paul,
and reviled him.
And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying,
“It was necessary that the word of God
should be spoken first to you.
Since you thrust it from you,
and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life,
behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
For so the Lord has commanded us, saying,
‘I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation
to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
And when the Gentiles heard this,
they were glad and glorified the word of God;
and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
And the word of the Lord spread throughout all the region.
But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing
and the leading men of the city,
and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas,
and drove them out of their district.
But they shook off the dust from their feet against them
and went to Iconium.
And the disciples were filled with joy
and with the Holy Spirit.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 100:1-2.3.5 (R. 3c)
R/. We are his people, the sheep of his flock.
Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth.
Serve the Lord with gladness.
Come before him, singing for joy.
Know that he, the Lord, is God.
He made us; we belong to him.
We are his people, the sheep of his flock.
Indeed, how good is the Lord,
eternal his merciful love.
He is faithful from age to age.
R/. We are his people, the sheep of his flock.
Second Reading: Revelation 7:9, 14b-17
I, John looked, and behold,
a great multitude which no one could number,
from every nation,
from all tribes and peoples and tongues,
standing before the throne and before the Lamb,
clothed in white robes,
with palm branches in their hands.
Then one of the elders said to me,
“These are they who have come out of the great tribulation;
they have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Therefore are they before the throne of God,
and serve him day and night within his temple,
and he who sits upon the throne
will shelter them with his presence.
They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd,
and he will guide them to springs of living water;
and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Gospel: John 10:27-30
At that time:
Jesus said,
