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  Sunday 14 May 2023    6th Sunday of Easter   By Martony 14th May, 2023 Readings at Mass Liturgical Colour: White. Year: A(I). First reading Acts 8:5-8,14-17  © They laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.   When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, and they went down there, and prayed for the Samaritans to receive the Holy Spirit, for as yet he had not come down on any of them: they had only been baptised in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Hol

St Nunzio Sulprizio (13 April 1817 – 5 May 1836) was an  Italian Roman Catholic from Pescara who worked as an apprentice blacksmith . He suffered from poor health during his brief life and was considered to those who knew him to be a gentle and pious individual.

Daily Mass Readings for Monday, 1 May 2023 New:   Download Mass Readings in PDF – May 2023 . Easter Weekday/ Joseph the Worker First Reading:  Acts 11: 1-18 Responsorial Psalm:  Psalms 42: 2-3; 43: 3-4 Alleluia:  John 10: 14 Gospel:  John 10: 11-18, Proper Gospel for Joseph: Matthew 13: 54-58 Lectionary: 279 First Reading:  Acts 11:  1-18 1  And the apostles and brethren, who were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2  And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, 3  Saying: Why didst thou go in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them? 4  But Peter began and declared to them the matter in order, saying: 5  I was in the city of Joppe praying, and I saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners, and it came even unto me. 6  Into which looking, I considered, and saw fourfooted creatures of the earth, and beasts, and creep

Fourth Sunday of Easter First Reading:  Acts 2: 14a, 36-41 Responsorial Psalm:  Psalms 23: 1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 Second Reading:  First Peter 2: 20b-25 Alleluia:  John 10: 14 Gospel:  John 10: 1-10  Lectionary: 49 First Reading:  Acts 2:  14a, 36-41 14a  Then Peter standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spoke to them: 36  Therefore let all the house of Israel know most certainly, that God hath made both Lord and Christ, this same Jesus, whom you have crucified. 37  Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart, and said to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren? 38  But Peter said to them: Do penance, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins: and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39  For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are far off, whomsoever the Lord our God shall call. 40  And with very many other words did he testify a