First Reading
Acts 13:13-25
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
13:13Now when Paul and those who were with him had sailed from Paphos, they came to Perge in Pamphylia. And John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem.
14But they passing through Perge, came to Antioch in Pisidia: and entering into the synagogue on the sabbath day, they sat down.
15And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying: You men, brothers and sisters, if you have any word of exhortation to make to the people, speak.
16Then Paul rising up, and with his hand bespeaking silence, said: You men of Israel, and you that fear God, give ear.
17The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they were sojourners in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought them out from from there,
18And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert.
19And destroying seven nations in the land of Chanaan, divided their land among them, by lot,
20As it were, after four hundred and fifty years: and after these things, he gave to them judges, until Samuel the prophet.
21And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
22And when he had removed him, he raised them up David to be king: to whom giving teaching, he said: I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man according to my own heart, who shall do all my wills.
23Of this man's offspring God according to his promise, has raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus:
24John first preaching, before his coming, the baptism of penance to all the people of Israel.
25And when John was fulfilling his course, he said: I am not he, whom you think me to be: but look, there comes one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.