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St. Matthew
St. Matthew, one of the twelve Apostles, is the author of the first Gospel. This has been the constant tradition of the Church and is confirmed by the Gospel itself. He was the son of Alpheus and was called to be an Apostle, while sitting in the tax collectors place at Capernaum. Before his conversion he was a publican, i.e., a tax collector by profession. He is to be identified with the “Levi” in the gospels of Mark and Luke. His apostolic activity was at first restricted to the communities of Palestine. Nothing definite is known about his later life. There is a tradition that points to Ethiopia as his field of labor; other traditions mention of Parthia and Persia. It is uncertain whether he died a natural death or received the crown of martyrdom.
Writing for his countrymen of Palestine, St. Matthew composed his Gospel in his native Aramaic, the “Hebrew tongue” mentioned in the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Soon afterward, about the time of the persecution of Herod Agrippa I in 42 AD, he took his departure for other lands. Another tradition places the composition of his Gospel either between the time of this departure and the Council of Jerusalem, i.e., between 42 AD and 50 AD or even later. Definitely, however, the Gospel, depicting the Holy City with its altar and temple as still existing, and without any reference to the fulfillment of our Lord’s prophecy, shows that it was written before the destruction of the city by the Romans in 70 AD, and this inthttp://www.stjosephchurchocd.org/adminzone/ZoneAbout.aspxernal evidence confirms the early traditions.
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MATHEW D'SILVA |
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CLETUS PAUL |
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JOSEPH ALMEIDA |
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13-0009 |
FRANCIS FERNANDES |
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13-0013 |
PETER PINTO |
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13-0015 |
LESLIE REGO |
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LANCY SEQUERIA |
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RONALD PINTO |
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13-0028 |
SUBHASH PAWAR |
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13-0030 |
MANIK BADGUJAR |
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13-0034 |
MARC MENEZES |
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13-0035 |
JOHN LUIS |
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13-0037 |
EDGAR MENEZES |
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13-0038 |
MABEL FERNANDEZ |
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13-0041 |
JOSEPHINE PINTO |
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13-0042 |
PAUL REBELLO |
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13-0043 |
MABLE MONIS |
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13-0044 |
ANTHONY TIXEIRA |
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13-0045 |
AUGUSTINE D'SOUZA |
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13-0047 |
JOSEPH BRAGANZA |
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13-0049 |
JULIA FERNANDES |
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13-0050 |
FRANCIS CARDOZ |
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13-0051 |
PETER FERNANDES |
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13-0052 |
ISAC MONTEIRO |
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13-0053 |
THOMAS MENEZES |
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13-0054 |
CLIFFORD D'SOUZA |
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ASSUMPTION SUGATHAN |
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13-0056 |
VALERIAN NORONHA |
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13-0057 |
IGNATIUS D'SOUZA |
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CORNELIUS CUTHINHO |
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HILLARY DANTES |
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13-0063 |
PETER D'SOUZA |
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13-0064 |
BERNARD CARVALHO |
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13-0065 |
DENZIL D'SOUZA |
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13-0067 |
GREGORIO FERNANDES |
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13-0068 |
CHARLES NORONHA |
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13-0069 |
PHILOMENA RODRIGUES |
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PASKIN SALES |
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13-0072 |
STANLEY MATHAIS |
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13-0073 |
HENRY MASCARENHAS |
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JACINTHA D'SOUZA |
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JOHN FERNANDES |
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ANTHONY D'SOUZA |
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13-0080 |
PETER D'SOUZA |
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13-0085 |
XAVIER D'SILVA |
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WARREN RODRIGUES |
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MELWIN D'SOUZA |
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13-0094 |
JOHN FELIX D'SOUZA |
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HARRY DANTIS |
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13-0097 |
REGINA CRASTO |
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SANTANO CRUZ RODRIGUES |
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CYRILIA DANTIS |
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FELIX PINTO |
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DOROTHY PEREIRA |
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KENNY GOMES |
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NICHOLAS D'SOUZA |
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13-0114 |
NANDU KADAM |
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13-0115 |
JACOB PEREIRA |
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13-0119 |
FRANCIS D'SOUZA |
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SANTAN NORONHA |
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ALEX DASS |
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Daily Readings |
April 25th, 2019
Thursday in the Octave of Easter
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April 25th, 2019
Thursday in the Octave of Easter
Lectionary: 264
Reading 1
ACTS 3:11-26
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John,
all the people hurried in amazement toward them
in the portico called “Solomon’s Portico.”
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people,
“You children of Israel, why are you amazed at this,
and why do you look so intently at us
as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,
the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus
whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence,
when he had decided to release him.
You denied the Holy and Righteous One
and asked that a murderer be released to you.
The author of life you put to death,
but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.
And by faith in his name,
this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong,
and the faith that comes through it
has given him this perfect health,
in the presence of all of you.
Now I know, brothers and sisters,
that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
but God has thus brought to fulfillment
what he had announced beforehand
through the mouth of all the prophets,
that his Christ would suffer.
Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,
and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment
and send you the Christ already appointed for you, Jesus,
whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration
of which God spoke through the mouth
of his holy prophets from of old.
For Moses said:
A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen in all that he may say to you.
Everyone who does not listen to that prophet
will be cut off from the people.
“Moreover, all the prophets who spoke,
from Samuel and those afterwards, also announced these days.
You are the children of the prophets
and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors
when he said to Abraham,
In your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
For you first, God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you
by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
Responsorial Psalm
PS 8:2AB AND 5, 6-7, 8-9
R.(2ab) O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R. Alleluia.
O LORD, our Lord,
how glorious is your name over all the earth!
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R. Alleluia.
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R. Alleluia.
All sheep and oxen,
yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!
or:
R. Alleluia.
Alleluia
PS 118:24
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
This is the day the LORD has made;
let us be glad and rejoice in it.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel
LK 24:35-48
The disciples of Jesus recounted what had taken place along the way,
and how they had come to recognize him in the breaking of bread.
While they were still speaking about this,
he stood in their midst and said to them,
"Peace be with you."
But they were startled and terrified
and thought that they were seeing a ghost.
Then he said to them, "Why are you troubled?
And why do questions arise in your hearts?
Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself.
Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones
as you can see I have."
And as he said this,
he showed them his hands and his feet.
While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed,
he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece of baked fish;
he took it and ate it in front of them.
He said to them,
"These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled."
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,
"Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things."
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