12 May 2024
10:00 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
In those days Peter stood up among the believers
(together the crowd numbered about one hundred and twenty people)
He said,
‘Friends, the scripture had to be fulfilled,
which the Holy Spirit through David foretold concerning Judas,
who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus—
for he was numbered among us
and was allotted his share in this ministry.’
So one of the men who have accompanied us
throughout the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
beginning from the baptism of John
until the day when he was taken up from us—
one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.’
So they proposed two,
Joseph called Barsabbas, who was also known as Justus, and Matthias.
Then they prayed and said,
‘Lord, you know everyone’s heart.
Show us which one of these two you have chosen
to take the place in this ministry and apostleship
from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.’
And they cast lots for them,
and the lot fell on Matthias;
and he was added to the eleven apostles.
1 John 5:9-13
A reading from the first lesson of John.
If we receive human testimony,
the testimony of God is greater;
for this is the testimony of God that he has testified to his Son.
Those who believe in the Son of God have the testimony in their hearts.
Those who do not believe in God have made him a liar
by not believing in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
Whoever has the Son has life;
whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God,
so that you may know that you have eternal life.
John 17:6-19
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John.
Jesus looked up to heaven and prayed:
‘Father, I have made your name known
to those whom you gave me from the world.
They were yours, and you gave them to me,
and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything you have given me is from you;
for the words that you gave to me
I have given to them,
and they have received them
and know in truth that I came from you;
and they have believed that you sent me.
I am asking on their behalf;
I am not asking on behalf of the world,
but on behalf of those whom you gave me,
because they are yours.
All mine are yours, and yours are mine;
and I have been glorified in them.
And now I am no longer in the world,
but they are in the world,
and I am coming to you.
Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me,
so that they may be one, as we are one.
While I was with them,
I protected them in your name that you have given me.
I guarded them, and not one of them was lost
except the one destined to be lost,
so that the scripture might be fulfilled.
But now I am coming to you,
and I speak these things in the world
so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
I have given them your word,
and the world has hated them
because they do not belong to the world,
just as I do not belong to the world.
I am not asking you to take them out of the world,
but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
They do not belong to the world,
just as I do not belong to the world.
Sanctify them in the truth;
your word is truth.
As you have sent me into the world,
so I have sent them into the world.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself,
so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
