? Weekday Mass – Westminster Cathedral

Reading 1, Acts 12:24-13:5

²⁴ The word of God continued to spread and to gain followers.

²⁵ Barnabas and Saul completed their task at Jerusalem and came back, bringing  John  Mark with them.

¹ In the church at Antioch the following were prophets and teachers: Barnabas,  Simeon  called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

² One day while they were offering worship to the Lord and keeping a fast, the Holy Spirit said, ‘I want Barnabas and Saul set apart for the work to which I have called them.’

³ So it was that after fasting and prayer they laid their hands on them and sent them off.

⁴ So these two, sent on their mission by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia and from there set sail for Cyprus.

⁵ They landed at Salamis and proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews; John acted as their assistant.

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Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8

² Then the earth will acknowledge your ways, and all nations your power to save.

³ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁵ Let the nations praise you, God, let all the nations praise you.

⁶ The earth has yielded its produce; God, our God has blessed us.

Gospel, John 12:44-50

⁴⁴ Jesus declared publicly: Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in the one who sent me,

⁴⁵ and whoever sees me, sees the one who sent me.

⁴⁶ I have come into the world as light, to prevent anyone who believes in me from staying in the dark any more.

⁴⁷ If anyone hears my words and does not keep them faithfully, it is not I who shall judge such a person, since I have come not to judge the world, but to save the world:

⁴⁸ anyone who rejects me and refuses my words has his judge already: the word itself that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day.

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken of my own accord; but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and what to speak,

⁵⁰ and I know that his commands mean eternal life. And therefore what the Father has told me is what I speak.