First Reading
Acts 11:1-18
The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers confronted him. Peter explained his vision of the large sheet lowered from the sky containing all kinds of animals and the voice that said, “What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.”
Peter recounted how the Spirit told him to accompany men from Caesarea to the house of Cornelius. As he began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon the Gentiles just as it had upon the Apostles at the beginning. Peter concluded, “If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us... who was I to be able to hinder God?” When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, “God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too.”
This is the word of the Lord.
R. Thanks be to God.
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 42:2-3; 43:3, 4
R. (3a) Athirst is my soul for the living God. (or: Alleluia.)
1. As the hind longs for the running waters, so my soul longs for you, O God. Athirst is my soul for God, the living God. When shall I go and behold the face of God?
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.
2. Send forth your light and your fidelity; they shall lead me on and bring me to your holy mountain, to your dwelling-place.
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.
3. Then will I go in to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy; Then will I give you thanks upon the harp, O God, my God!
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.
Alleluia
John 10:14
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I am the good shepherd, says the Lord; I know my sheep, and mine know me.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
John 10:11-18
Jesus said: “I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away... I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
"I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord.
R. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.