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Presbyterian Church
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Last updated: 04/16/2025
The Lay Leader for Sunday,
April 20, is Leo.
FIRST READING:
Acts 10:34-43
34. Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly
understand that God shows no partiality, 35. but in every nation anyone who
fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. 36. You know the message
he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of
all. 37. That message spread throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the
baptism that John announced: 38. how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Spirit and with power; how he went about doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. 39. We are witnesses to all
that he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him
on a tree; 40. but God raised him on the third day and allowed him to appear,
41. not to all the people but to us who were chosen by God as witnesses, and who
ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42. He commanded us to
preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained by God as judge
of the living and the dead. 43. All the prophets testify about him that everyone
who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
GOSPEL READING:
Luke 24:1-12
1. But on the first day of the week, at early dawn,
they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2. They found
the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3. but when they went in, they did not find
the body. 4. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling
clothes stood beside them. 5. The women were terrified and bowed their faces to
the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the
dead? He is not here, but has risen. 6. Remember how he told you, while he was
still in Galilee, 7. that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinners, and be
crucified, and on the third day rise again.” 8. Then they remembered his words,
9. and returning from the tomb, they told all this to the eleven and to all the
rest.
10. Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother
of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. 11. But
these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12. But
Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen
cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.