Léctio Actuum Apostolórum (7,55-60)
In diebus illis: Cum esset Stéphanus plenus Spíritu Sancto, inténdens in cælum vidit glóriam Dei et Iésum stantem a dextris Dei et ait: “Ecce vídeo cælos apértos et Fílium hóminis a dextris stantem Dei.” Exclamántes autem voce magna continuérunt aures suas et ímpetum fecérunt unanímiter in eum et eiciéntes extra civitátem lapidábant. Et testes deposuérunt vestiménta sua secus pedes adulescéntis, qui vocabátur Saulus. Et lapidábant Stéphanum invocántem et dicéntem: “Dómine Iésu, súscipe spíritum meum.” Pósitis autem génibus clamávit voce magna: “Dómine, ne státuas illis hoc peccátum”; et cum hoc dixísset, obdormívit.
In those days: Steven being full of the Holy Spirit, looking steadfastly unto Heaven, saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. And he said: Behold I see the Heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. And they crying out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and with one accord ran violently upon him. And casting him forth without the city they stoned him: and the witnesses laid off their garments beside the feet of a young man that was called Saul. And they stoned Steven invocating, and saying: Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And falling on his knees, he cried with a loud voice, saying: Lord, lay not this sin unto them. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. And Saul was consenting to his death.
