First Reading: Acts 14:21-27

²¹ When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Ico’nium and to Antioch,
²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
²³ And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they believed.
²⁴ Then they passed through Pisid’ia, and came to Pamphyl’ia.
²⁵ And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attali’a;
²⁶ and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.
²⁷ And when they arrived, they gathered the church together and declared all that God had done with them, and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.