19 April 2026
10:30 | 
Posted by
Dr Platts |
Acts 2:14a, 36-41
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.
On the day of Pentecost,
Peter, standing with the eleven,
raised his voice and addressed the crowd,
Let the entire house of Israel know with certainty
that God has made him both Lord and Messiah,
this Jesus whom you crucified.”
Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart
and said to Peter and to the other apostles,
“Brothers, what should we do?”
Peter said to them,
“Repent and be baptized every one of you
in the name of Jesus Christ
so that your sins may be forgiven,
and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For the promise is for you, for your children,
and for all who are far away,
everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”
And he testified with many other arguments
and exhorted them, saying,
“Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”
So those who welcomed his message were baptized,
and that day about three thousand persons
were added to their number.
1 Peter 1:17-23
A reading from the first letter of Peter.
If you invoke as Father
the one who judges impartially according their deeds,
live in reverent fear during the time of your exile.
You know that you were ransomed
from the futile conduct inherited from your ancestors,
not with perishable things like silver or gold
but with the precious blood of Christ,
like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.
He was destined before the foundation of the world
but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake.
Through him you have come to trust in God,
who raised him from the dead and gave him glory,
so that your trust and hope are in God.
Now that you have purified your souls
by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love,
love one another deeply from the heart.
You have been born anew,
not of perishable but of imperishable seed,
through the living and enduring word of God.
Luke 24:13-35
Hear the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ accordiing to Luke.
On that same day
two of the disciples were going to a village called Emmaus,
about seven miles from Jerusalem,
and talking with each other about all these things that had happened.
While they were talking and discussing,
Jesus himself came near and went with them,
but their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
And he said to them,
“What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?”
They stood still, looking sad.
Then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answered him,
“Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem
who does not know the things
that have taken place there in these days?”
He asked them, “What things?”
They replied, “The things about Jesus of Nazareth,
who was a prophet mighty in deed and word
before God and all the people,
and how our chief priests and leaders handed him over
to be condemned to death and crucified him.
But we had hoped that he was the one to redeem Israel.
Yes, and besides all this,
it is now the third day since these things took place.
Moreover, some women of our group astounded us.
They were at the tomb early this morning,
and when they did not find his body there
they came back
and told us that they had indeed seen a vision of angels
who said that he was alive.
Some of those who were with us went to the tomb
and found it just as the women had said,
but they did not see Jesus.”
Then he said to them,
“Oh, how foolish you are
and how slow of heart
to believe all that the prophets have declared!
Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things
and then enter into his glory?”
Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets,
he interpreted to them
the things about himself in all the scriptures.
As they came near the village to which they were going,
he walked ahead as if he were going on.
But they urged him strongly, saying,
“Stay with us, because it is almost evening
and the day is now nearly over.”
So he went in to stay with them.
When he was at the table with them,
he took bread, blessed and broke it,
and gave it to them.
Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him,
and he vanished from their sight.
They said to each other,
“Were not our hearts burning within us
while he was talking to us on the road,
while he was opening the scriptures to us?”
That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem,
and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together.
They were saying,
“The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!”
Then they told what had happened on the road
and how he had been made known to them
in the breaking of the bread.
