Mass Readings for March 31, 2024

Acts 10:34,37-43
Psalms 118:1-2,16-17,22-23
Colossians 3:1-4
1 Corinthians 5:6-8
John 20:1-9

Acts 10:34,37-43
(34) Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism; (37) you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached; (38) even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. (39) We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree. (40) God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed, (41) not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. (42) He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead. (43) All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Psalms 118:1-2,16-17,22-23
(1) Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. (2) Let Israel now say that his loving kindness endures forever. (16) The right hand of Yahweh is exalted! The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly!” (17) I will not die, but live, and declare Yah’s works. (22) The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. (23) This is Yahweh’s doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.

Colossians 3:1-4
(1) If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. (2) Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. (3) For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. (4) When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8
(6) Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump? (7) Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place. (8) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

John 20:1-9
(1) Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb. (2) Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have laid him!” (3) Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb. (4) They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first. (5) Stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths lying, yet he didn’t enter in. (6) Then Simon Peter came, following him, and entered into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying, (7) and the cloth that had been on his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. (8) So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed. (9) For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.