Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter – Year A
First Reading – Acts 20:17-27
And from Mile′tus he sent to Ephesus and called to him the elders of the Church. And when they came to him, he said to them: “You yourselves know how I lived among you all the time from the first day that I set foot in Asia, serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which befell me through the plots of the Jews; how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance to God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And now, behold, I am going to Jerusalem, bound in the Spirit, not knowing what shall befall me there; except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me. But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may accomplish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. And now, behold, I know that all you among whom I have gone about preaching the kingdom will see my face no more. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all of you, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Responsorial Psalm – Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21
℟ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
Your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.
The Lord gives the command; great is the host of those who bore the tidings.
℟ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
Our God is a God of salvation; and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
But God will shatter the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways.
℟ Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
Alleluia – John 14:16
℟ Alleluia!
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with you for ever.
℟ Alleluia!
Gospel – John 17:1-11
When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do; and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made. I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you; for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition, Ignatius Press, Copyright ⓒ 2006.