Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, May 1 2018

Tuesday of the Fifth week of Easter

Tuesday of the Fifth week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

14,19-28.

]In those days, some Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived and won over the crowds.  They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
]But when the disciples gathered around him, he got up and entered the city. On the following day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
]After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.
]They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, "It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God."
]They appointed presbyters for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith.
]Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia.
]After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia.
]From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now accomplished.
]And when they arrived, they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
]Then they spent no little time with the disciples.

Psalm

Psalms

145(144),10-11.12-13ab.21.

]Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
]Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
]Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your Kingdom.
]Your Kingdom is a Kingdom for all ages,
]and your dominion endures through all generations.
]May my mouth speak the praise of the LORD,
and may all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

14,27-31a.

]Jesus said to his disciples: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give it to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
]You heard me tell you, 'I am going away and I will come back to you.' If you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
]And now I have told you this before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe.
]I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over me,
]but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me."

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St. Joseph the Worker()

Saint Joseph the WorkerReadings proper for the feast: Gn. 1:26-2:3 or Col. 3:14-24; Mt 13:54-58 Today is a wonderful occasion to reflect on the importance of work in the life of the human person, the family and the community. We are made in the image and likeness of God, we participate with God in the work of maintaining and sanctifying His creation. We work with Jesus; Jesus said “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working” (Jn. 5:17). Every day, St. Joseph, as a carpenter, provided for the family's needs with manual work. Thus the Church rightly points to him as the patron of workers. The dignity of the human person is constructed through work, and in the light of this truth, we can clearly perceive the fundamental connection between the person, work and society. Human activity - the Second Vatican Council recalls - proceeds from the human person and is ordered to the person. According to God's design and will, it must serve the true good of humanity and allow "man as an individual and as a member of society to cultivate and carry out his integral vocation" (cf. Gaudium et spes, n. 35). In order to fulfil this mission, a "tested spirituality of human work" must be cultivated that is firmly rooted in the "Gospel of work" and believers are called to proclaim and to witness to the Christian meaning of work in their many activities and occupations (cf. Laborem exercens, n. 26). May St. Joseph, such a great and humble saint be an example that inspires Christian workers, who should call on him in every circumstance. Today, I wish to entrust to the provident guardian of the Holy Family of Nazareth the young people who are training for their future profession, the unemployed, and those who are suffering from the hardship of the shortage of employment, families and the whole world of work, with the expectations and challenges, the problems and prospects that characterize it.(Partially taken from John Paul II - General audience, Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Wednesday, 19 March 2003)

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