Thursday, 24 April, 2025
Thursday in the Octave of Easter
Readings on p.444 of the Daily Missal
First Reading: Acts 3:11-26
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 8:2ab & 5.6-7a.7b-9 (R. 2ab)
R/. O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name through all the earth!
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic
is your name through all the earth!
What is man that you should keep him in mimd,
the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him little lower than the angels;
with glory and honour you crowned him,
gave him power over the works of your hands.
You put all things under his feet,
all of them, sheep and oxen,
yes, even the cattle of the fields,
birds of the air, and fish of the sea
that make their way through the waters.
R/.
Gospel: Luke 24:35-48
At that time:
The two disciples told what had happened
on the road to Emmaus,
and how Jesus was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them,
and said to them, “Peace to you.”
But they were startled and frightened
and supposed that they saw a spirit.
And he said to them, “Why are you troubled,
and why do questionings rise in your hearts?
See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself;
handle me, and see;
for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
And when he had said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered,
he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
They gave him a piece of broiled fish,
and he took it and ate before them.
Then he said to them,
“These are my words which I spoke to you,
while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures,
and said to them, “Thus it is written,
that the Christ should suffer
and on the third day rise from the dead,
and that repentance and forgiveness of sins
should be preached in his name to all nations,
beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”
