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Mass Readings

Sunday, April 18, 2027

Fourth Sunday of Easter

Sunday · Easter Time · Cycle B · Year I · White

Reading I

Acts 4:8-12

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said to them: Ye princes of the people and ancients, hear.

If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

Be it known to you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God hath raised from the dead, even by him, this man standeth here before you, whole.

This is the stone which was rejected by you the builders, which is become the head of the corner.

Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

Responsorial Psalm

Ps 118:1+8-9, 21-23, 26+21+29

Give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.

It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.

I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation.

The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.

This is the Lord's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Reading II

1 John 3:1-2

Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God: and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know that when he shall appear we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.

Gospel Acclamation

John 10:14

I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.

Gospel

John 10:11-18

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

But the hireling and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming and leaveth the sheep and flieth: and the wolf casteth and scattereth the sheep,

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

I am the good shepherd: and I know mine, and mine know me.

As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

And other sheep I have that are not of this fold: them also I must bring. And they shall hear my voice: And there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. And I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

About These Readings

Scripture text from the Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision, 1899), which is in the public domain. The Mass readings follow the Lectionary for Mass approved for the dioceses of the United States.

The Douay-Rheims follows the Vulgate numbering, which in the Psalms, Sirach, and a few other books can differ by a chapter or a few verses from the numbering in the modern Lectionary. The text is the same passage.

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