APRIL 28TH IS THE 119TH DAY OF THE YEAR (LEAP YEAR). TODAY IS FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER >>>>>

Feast of St. Louis-Marie de Montfort. First Reading: ACTS 9:26-31. Responsorial Psalm: PSALM 22:26-27, 28 AND 30, 31-32 (R/ 26) YOU ARE MY PRAISE, LORD, IN THE GREAT ASSEMBLY. Second Reading: 1 John 3:18-24 Gospel Reading: JOHN 15:1-8 >>>>

Christology: JESUS THE TRUE VINE, THE SOURCE OF OUR FRUITFULNESS>>

April 28TH IS World Day for Safety and Health at Work>>>>>> HAPPY FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER>>>

WEEKLY SUNDAY MASS AT THE ALTAR OF DIVINE MERCY IVUE UROMI, EDO NIGERIA @ 2:30 PM>>>>

REJOICE AND BE GLAD O VIRGIN MARY – ALLELUIA, FOR THE LORD HAS RISEN INDEED – ALLELUIA!!!

JESUS – I TRUST IN YOU! JESUS – I TRUST IN YOU!! MERCIFUL JESUS – I TRUST IN YOU!!!>>>>>>

Today’s Prayer Point

Thank You God the Father

Thank You God the Son

Thank You God the Holy Spirit

I AM the King of glory

I AM the Master of Divine Fruitfulness

I AM the Alpha and Omega

I AM the Beginning and the End

I AM the Great I AM

I release My Peace upon you

1. Prayer of Thanksgiving
2. Pray against Confusion
3. Pray against that which is not of God
4. Pray for the Network
5. Pray against Disappointment
6. Pray against death
7. I AM the Light that disperse darkness
8. Pray against every form of darkness
9. Pray against powers that are not of God
10. Pray that none of your members will be involved in accident
11. Pray against obstruction
12. Pray against distraction
13. Pray that they will not rush someone to your praying ground
14. Pray against that which will not bring glory to God
15. Group of youths with evil life style
16. Pray against hospital admission
17. Pray for pregnant woman with complications
18. Pray that nobody will divert your members
19. Pray for your children against bad friends and vices
20. Chaplet of our Mother of Perpetual Help
21. Pray against seduction
22. Pray against erosion that it will not enter people’s homes.
23. Look at the Cross! It is the Saving Grace of Jesus Christ.
24. Sprinkling of Water on people’s face for fruitfulness
25. Money! Money!! Money!!!
26. I will always make name for Myself in your midst
27. Pray for more spirit of Discernment
28. Pray against bad dreams
29. I AM with you! I will always direct you
30. I bless you.
31. It is well with you

Today’s Readings

Entrance Antiphon     Cf.    Ps      98:1 -2

O sing a new song to the Lord, for he has worked wonders; in the sight of the nations he has shown his deliverance, alleluia.

The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said.

Collect

Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the paschal mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal.

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

FIRST READING       Acts  9:26-31

“He declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord. ”

A reading from the Acts of the Apostles

In those days: When Saul had come to Jerusalem he attempted to join the disciples; and they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how on the road he had seen the Lord, who spoke to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus. So he went in and out among them at Jerusa­lem, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord. And he spoke and disputed against the Hellenists; but they were seeking to kill him. And when the brethren knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him off to Tarsus. So the Church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was built up; and walk­ing in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit it was multiplied.

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 22:26b-27.28 and 30.31-32 (R. 26a)

1. You are my praise in the great assembly.

Or: Alleluia.

My vows I will pay before those who fear him.

The poor shall eat and shall have their fill.

They shall praise the Lord, those who seek him.

May their hearts live on forever and ever! R.

All the earth shall remember and return to the Lord,

all families of the nations worship before him.

They shall worship him, all the mighty of the earth;

before him shall bow all who go down to the dust. R.

And my soul shall live for him, my descendents serve him.

They shall tell of the Lord to generations yet to come,

declare his saving justice to peoples yet unborn:

“These are the things the Lord has done.” R.

SECOND READING 1        John 3:18-24

“This is his commandment, that we should believe. . . and love one another. ”

A reading from the first Letter of Saint John

Little children, let us not love in word or speech but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth, and reassure our hearts before him whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows every­thing.

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. All who keep his com­mandments abide in him, and he in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

The word of the Lord.

ALLELUIA                   John 15:4a.5b

1. Alleluia. R. Alleluia.
2. Abide in me, and I in you, says the Lord; he who abides in me bears much fruit.
3. Alleluia.

GOSPEL                      John 15:1-8

“He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.”

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

At that time: Jesus said to his disciples,

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.

Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

You are already made clean by the word which I have spoken to you.

Abide in me, and I in you.

As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches.

He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burnt.

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.

By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

The Creed is said.

Prayer over the Offerings

God, who by the wonderful exchange effected in this sacrifice have made us partakers of the one supreme Godhead, grant, we pray, that as we have come to know your truth, we may make it ours by a worthy way of life.

Through Christ our Lord.

Communion Antiphon                           Cf. Jn. 15:1.5

I am the true vine and you are the branches, says the Lord. Whoever remains in me, and I in him, bears fruit in plenty, alleluia.

Prayer after Communion

Graciously be present to your people, we pray, O Lord, and lead those you have imbued with heavenly mysteries to pass from former ways to newness of life.

Through Christ our Lord.