May 9, 2004, Thursday of the 6th week of Easter.

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.

There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy

with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the

Jews to leave Rome. He went to visit them, and because he practiced the same trade, stayed with them

and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. Every Sabbath he entered into discussions in the

synagogue, attempting to convince both Jews and Greeks.

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to occupy himself totally with preaching the word,

testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.

When they opposed him and reviled him, he shook out his

garments and said to them, Your blood be on your heads. I am clear of responsibility. From

now on I will go to the Gentiles. So he left there and went to a house belonging to a man

named Titus Justice, a worshipper of God.

His house was next to a synagogue.

Crispus, the synagogue official, came to believe in the Lord, along with his entire household,

and many of the Corinthians who heard believed and were baptized.

The Word of the Lord.

The Responsorial Psalm

The response is,

The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds.

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