Léctio Actuum Apostolórum (11,1-18)
In diébus illis: Audiérunt apóstoli et fratres, qui erant in Iudǽa, quóniam et gentes recepérunt verbum Dei. Cum ascendísset autem Petrus in Ierusálem, disceptábant advérsus illum, qui erant ex circumcisióne, dicéntes: “Introísti ad viros præpútium habéntes et manducásti cum illis!” Incípiens autem Petrus exponébat illis ex órdine dicens: “Ego eram in civitáte Ióppe orans et vidi in excéssu mentis visiónem, descéndens vas quoddam velut línteum magnum quáttuor inítiis submítti de cælo et venit usque ad me; in quod íntuens considerábam et vidi quadrupédia terræ et béstias et reptília et volatília cæli. Audívi autem et vocem dicéntem mihi: ‘Súrgens, Petre, occíde et mandúca!’ Dixi autem: Nequáquam, Dómine, quia commúne aut immúndum numquam introívit in os meum. Respóndit autem vox secúndo de cælo: ‘Quæ Deus mundávit, tu ne commúne díxeris.’ Hoc autem factum est per ter, et retrácta sunt rursum ómnia in cælum. Et ecce conféstim tres viri astitérunt in domo, in qua erámus, missi a Cæsaréa ad me. Dixit autem Spíritus mihi, ut irem cum illis nihil hǽsitans. Venérunt autem mecum et sex fratres isti, et ingréssi sumus in domum viri. Narrávit autem nobis quómodo vidísset ángelum ad domum suam stantem et dicéntem: ‘Mítte in Ióppen et accérsi Simónem, qui cognominátur Petrus, qui loquétur tibi verba, in quibus salvus eris tu et univérsa domus tua.’ Cum autem cœpíssem loqui, décidit Spíritus Sanctus super eos, sicut et super nos in inítio. Recordátus sum autem verbi Dómini, sicut dicébat: ‘Ioánnes quidem baptizávit aqua, vos autem baptizabímini in Spíritu Sancto.’ Si ergo æquále donum dedit illis Deus sicut et nobis, qui credídimus in Dóminum Iésum Christum, ego quis eram qui possem prohibére Deum?” His autem audítis, acquievérunt et glorificavérunt Deum dicéntes: “Ergo et géntibus Deus pæniténtiam ad vitam dedit.”
In those days: the Apostles and brethren that were in Jewry, heard that the Gentiles also received the word of God. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the Circumcision reasoned against him, saying: Why didst thou enter in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them? But Peter began and declared to them the order, saying: I was in the city of Joppe praying, & I saw in an excess of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending as it were a great sheet with four corners let down from heaven, & it came even unto me. Into which I looking considered, & saw four footed beasts of the earth, & cattle, & such as creep, & fowls of the air. And I heard also a voice saying to me: Arise Peter, kill and eat. And I said: Not so Lord; for common or unclean thing never entered into my mouth. And a voice answered the second time from heaven: That which God hath made clean, do not thou call common. And this was done thrice: and all were taken up again into heaven. And behold, three men immediately were come to the house wherein I was, sent to me from Cæsarea. And the spirit said to me, that I should go with them, doubting nothing. And there came with me these six brethren also: and we went into the man's house. And he told us, how he had seen an Angel in his house, standing and saying to him: Send to Joppe, and call hither Simon, that is surnamed Peter, who shall speak to thee words wherein thou shalt be saved and all thy house. And when I had begun to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon them, as upon us also in the beginning. And I remembered the word of our Lord, according as he said: John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. If therefore God hath given them the same grace, as to us also that believed in our Lord Jesus Christ: who was I that might prohibit God? Having heard these things, they held their peace: & glorified God, saying: God then to the Gentiles also hath given repentance unto life.
