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THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
(YEAR A)
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SECOND READING
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1 PETER 1:17-21
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A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PETER
(YOUR RANSOM WAS PAID IN THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF A LAMB WITHOUT SPOT OR STAIN, NAMELY, CHRIST.)
If you are acknowledging
as your Father
one who has no favourites
and judges everyone
according to
what he has done,
you must be scrupulously careful
as long as you are
living away from
your home.
Remember,
the ransom
that was paid
to free you
from the useless way of life
your ancestors handed down
was not paid
in anything corruptible,
neither in silver
nor gold,
but in the precious blood of a lamb
without spot or stain,
namely Christ;
who
though known
since before
the world was made,
has been revealed
only in our time,
the end of the ages,
for your sake.
Through him
you now have faith in God,
who raised him from the dead
and gave him glory
for that very reason
– so that you would have
faith and hope
in God.
The word of the Lord.
R.) Thanks be to God.
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