Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, June 4 2019
Tuesday of the Seventh week of Easter
Tuesday of the Seventh week of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
20,17-27.]From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus summoned.
]When they came to him, he addressed them, "You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.
]I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews,
]and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
]I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
]But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know,
]except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me.
]Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God's grace.
]"But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again.
]And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,
]for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God."
Psalms
68(67),10-11.20-21.]A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance;
you restored the land when it languished;
]your flock settled in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy.
]Blessed day by day be the Lord,
who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation.
]God is a saving God for us;
the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
17,1-11a.]Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,
]just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him.
]Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
]I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.
]Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.
]I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
]Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,
]because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
]I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,
]and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.
]And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are."
St. Francis Caracciolo(Co-Founder (1563-1608))
ST. FRANCIS CARACCIOLOPriest and co-founder of the Congregation of the Minor Clerics Regular(1563-1608) St. Francis Caracciolo was born in the kingdom of Naples to a princely family. He preferred reciting the Rosary instead of amusing himself and often gave food to the poor. While studying for the priesthood in Naples, he visited prisoners regularly and adored the Eucharist in unfrequented churches.After being ordained at 25 years old, he was miraculously curedof a rare skin condition. St. Francis founded an order of clerics regular and formulated its rule. One priest fasted on bread and water, another took the discipline, a third wore a hair-shirt and all three took turns in perpetual adoration. To their usual vows, they added the refusal of official dignities. St. Francis undertook many journeys throughout Italy and Spain on foot and without money. While establishing the Order, he subsisted on bread given to him in charity. When he was elected general, he continued his mortifications and devoted seven hours daily to meditating on the Passion. He also prayed for most of the night before the Eucharist. St. Francis was commonly called the Preacher of Divine Love, but it was before the Blessed Sacrament that his ardent devotion was most perceptible. In the presence of his divine Lord, St. Francis' face emitted rays of light. According to his custom, he would lay prostrate before the tabernacle repeating, "Zeal for your house has consumed me." St. Francis passed away from fever at 44 years on the eve of Corpus Christi in 1608. His final words were, "Let us go, let us go to Heaven!" An autopsy revealed that his heart was burned and that there were words imprinted around it: "Zelus domus Tuæ comedit me", "The zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up."
St. Clotilda(Queen (476-545))
SAINT CLOTILDA Queen (476-545) St. Clotilda was the daughter of Chilperic, whose older brother was King Gondebald of Burgundy. King Gondebald killed Chilperic, Chilperic's wife, and all his bothers. St. Clotilda was raised by an uncle and instructed in Catholicism amidst Arianism. St. Clotilda's wit, beauty and beatitudes attracted the victorious king of the Franks,Clovis I, who obtained her hand in marriage. St. Clotilda honored her royal husband, studied to sweeten his warlike temper by Christian meekness and conformed herself to his humor in things that were indifferent. She made those things in which he took the greatest delight the subject of her discourse and praises, thus gaining his affections. When St. Clotilda saw herself mistress of Clovis' heart, she did not defer the great work of endeavoring to win him to God. However, Clovis' human respect made him delay his conversion. His miraculous victory over the Alemanni and his conversion in 496 were the fruit of St. Clotilda's prayers. Among other religious foundations, Clovis built a church dedicated to Sts. Peter and Paul in 511, now called the Abbey of St. Genevieve. Clovis died on November 27, 511, at 45 years old, after a thirty-year reign. His eldest son, Theodoric, reigned over the eastern parts of France from Rheims. Meanwhile, Prince Clodomir reigned from Orleans, Prince Childebert reigned from Paris and Prince Clotaire I reigned from Soissons. The division produced wars and mutual jealousies until Clotaire I reunited the monarchy in 560. The dissensions in St. Clotilda's family weaned her heart from the world. She spent the remainder of her life praying, almsgiving, adoring and fasting. She seemed to forget that she had been queen or that her sons sat on the throne. She foretold her death thirty days before it happened. On the thirtieth day, she received the last sacraments and made a public confession of faith. She passed away on June 4, 545, and attained the beatific vision: seeing Jesus Christ face to face forever.
St. Kevin()
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