THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY
SATURDAY FORTH WEEK OF EASTER: REMAIN IN MY LOVE First Reading Acts 1:15-17,20-26 'Let someone else take his office' One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers – there were about a hundred and twenty persons in the congregation: ‘Brothers, the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit, speaking through David, foretells the fate of Judas, who offered himself as a guide to the men who arrested Jesus after having been one of our number and actually sharing this ministry of ours. Now in the Book of Psalms it says: Readings Lectures Let his camp be reduced to ruin, Let there be no one to live in it. And again: Let someone else take his office. ‘We must therefore choose someone who has been with us the whole time that the Lord Jesus was travelling round with us, someone who was with us right from the time when John was baptising until the day when he was taken up from us, and he can act with us as a witness to his resurrect