Responsorial Psalm
In you, O Lord, I seek refuge;
let me not be disgraced.
In your justice help me and deliver me,
turn your ear to me and save me!
Be my rock of refuge, a stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
All the earth bows down to you,
making music in praise of you,
singing in honor of your name."
Come and see God's wonders,
his deeds awesome for humans.
He has turned the sea into dry land,
and the river was crossed on foot.
Let us, therefore, rejoice in him.
He rules by his might forever,
his eyes keeping watch on the peoples,
his arm holding the rebels in check.
All you who fear God, come and listen;
let me tell you what he has done.
May God be blessed!
He has not rejected my prayer;
nor withheld his love from me.
2nd. READING (1 Pe 3, 15-18)
Reverence the Lord Christ in your hearts and always have an answer ready when you
are called upon to account for your hope, but give it simply and with respect. Keep
your conscience clear so that those who slander you may be put to shame by your
upright, Christian living. Better to suffer for doing good, if it is God's will, than for
doing wrong. Remember how Christ died, once and for all, for our sins. He, the just
one, died for the unjust in order to lead us to God. He died as humans do, but was
raised to life by the Spirit.
GOSPEL ( Jn 14,15-21 )
Jesus said to his disciples: If you love me, you will keep my commandments; and I
will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you forever, that
Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows
him. But you know him for he is with you and will be in you. I will not leave you
orphans, I am coming to you. A little while and the world will see me no more, but
you will see me because I live and you will also live. On that day you will know that I
am in my Father and you in me, and I in you. Whoever keeps my commandments is
the one who loves me. If he loves me, he will also be loved by my Father; I too shall
love him and show myself clearly to him."