Léctio Actuum Apostolórum (16,11-15)
Navigántes a Troáde recto cursu venímus Samothráciam et sequénti die Neápolim et inde Philíppos, quæ est prima partis Macedóniæ cívitas, colónia. Erámus autem in hac urbe diébus áliquot commorántes. Die autem sabbatórum egréssi sumus foras portam iúxta flumen, ubi putabámus oratiónem esse, et sedéntes loquebámur muliéribus, quæ convénerant. Et quædam múlier nómine Lýdia, purpurária civitátis Thyatirenórum colens Deum, audiébat, cuíus Dóminus apéruit cor inténdere his, quæ dicebántur a Paulo. Cum autem baptizáta esset et domus eíus, deprecáta est dicens: “Si iudicástis me fidélem Dómino esse, introíte in domum meam et manéte”; et cœgit nos.
Sailing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis: and from thence to Philippi, which is the first city of the part of Macedonia, a colonia. And we were in this city certain days, abiding. And upon the day of the Sabboths, we went forth without the gate beside a river, where it seemed that there was prayer: & sitting we spake to the women that were assembled. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of the Thyatirians, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart our Lord opened to attend to those things which were said of Paul. And when she was baptized, & her house, she besought us, saying: If you have judged me to be faithful to our Lord, enter into my house & tarry. And she constrained us.
