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Producing these Lectionary Notes has been taking too long again. Therefore I’m giving myself a time limit of a few hours. Let’s do this…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Fourth Sunday of Easter: April 29th, 2012<\/h2>\n

The Readings at Mass this week focus around the person of Jesus Christ and his unique, fundamental place in Salvation History. In our First Reading, St. Peter boldly proclaims that “<\/span>There is no salvation through anyone else”<\/span>. <\/em>In our Psalm we sing the words quoted by Peter in that speech to the Sanhedrin, declaring that Jesus is “the stone rejected by the builders [which] has become the cornerstone”<\/em><\/span>.\u00a0In the Gospel Reading, Jesus declares that He is “the good shepherd”<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 who “lays down his life for the sheep”<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and, as we hear in our Second Reading, because of this we may truly be called\u00a0“the children of God”<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

At this Sunday’s Mass, confident in the goodness of our Shepherd, let us firmly put our trust in Him.<\/p>\n

The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.<\/em><\/span>
\n He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul.<\/em><\/span>
\n He guides me along the right paths for his name\u2019s sake.<\/em><\/span>
\n Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.<\/em><\/span>
\n You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.<\/em><\/span>
\n Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,<\/em><\/span>
\n and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever<\/em> – Psalm 23<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reading I: Acts 4:8-12<\/h2>\n

During this Easter Season we have been reading about the story of the Early Church in the Acts of the Apostles.<\/p>\n

Last week<\/a>, we heard the preaching of Peter to the crowd after the healing of a lame beggar. This\u00a0spectacle\u00a0attracted the attention of the Temple Guard and the\u00a0Sadducees. Peter and John were arrested and thrown in jail for the night.<\/p>\n

In the morning they were brought before “…the rulers, the elders and the teachers of the law”<\/span><\/em>, as well as “Annas the high priest”<\/span><\/em> (Acts 4:1-6<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said:\u00a0“Leaders of the people and elders:\u00a0If we are being examined today\u00a0about a good deed done to a cripple,\u00a0namely, by what means he was saved,\u00a0then all of you and all the people of Israel should know\u00a0that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean\u00a0whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead;\u00a0in his name this man stands before you healed.\u00a0He is the stone rejected by you, the builders,\u00a0which has become the cornerstone.\u00a0There is no salvation through anyone else,\u00a0nor is there any other name under heaven\u00a0given to the human race by which we are to be saved.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Questions:<\/p>\n