First Reading Acts 20:28-38
28Take care of yourselves and of the entire flock, over which the Holy Spirit has stationed you as Bishops to rule the Church of God, which he has purchased by his own blood.
29I know that after my departure ravenous wolves will enter among you, not sparing the flock.
30And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them.
31Because of this, be vigilant, retaining in memory that throughout three years I did not cease, night and day, with tears, to admonish each and every one of you.
32And now, I commend you to God and to the Word of his grace. He has the power to build up, and to give an inheritance to all who are sanctified.
33I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel,
34as you yourselves know. For that which was needed by me and by those who are with me, these hands have provided.
35I have revealed all things to you, because by laboring in this way, it is necessary to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
36And when he had said these things, kneeling down, he prayed with all of them.
37Then a great weeping occurred among them all. And, falling upon the neck of Paul, they kissed him,
38being grieved most of all over the word which he had said, that they would never see his face again. And they brought him to the ship.
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