Catholic Daily Reading 6th May 2012

"And when he was come into Jerusalem, he essayed to join himself to the disciples: and they all were afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and told them how he had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken to him: and how in Damascus he had dealt confidently in the name of Jesus.
And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem and dealing confidently in the name of the Lord.
He spoke also to the Gentiles and disputed with the Greeks. But they sought to kill him.
Which when the brethren had known, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.
Now, the church had peace throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria: and was edified, walking in the fear of the Lord: and was filled with the consolation of the Holy Ghost."
Acts 9.26-31

"With thee is my praise in a great church: I will pay my vows in the sight of them that fear him.
The poor shall eat and shall be filled: and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their hearts shall live for ever and ever.
All the ends of the earth shall remember, and shall be converted to the Lord: And all the kindreds of the Gentiles shall adore in his sight.
All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and have adored: all they that go down to the earth shall fall before him.
And to him my soul shall live: and my seed shall serve him.
There shall be declared to the Lord a generation to come: and the heavens shall shew forth his justice to a people that shall be born, which the Lord hath made."
Psalm 22.26-27,28,30,31-32

"I am the true vine: and my Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now you are clean, by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.
Abide in me: and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in me.
I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.
If any one abide not in me, he shall be cast forth as a branch and shall wither: and they shall gather him up and cast him into the fire: and he burneth.
If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will: and it shall be done unto you.
In this is my Father glorified: that you bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples."
John 15.1-8

"He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.
For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.
After these things, Jesus and his disciples came into the land of Judea: and there he abode with them and baptized.
And John also was baptizing in Ennon near Salim: because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.
For John was not yet cast into prison."
John 3.18-24