Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 13 2019
Monday of the Fourth week of Easter
Monday of the Fourth week of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
11,1-18.]The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.
]So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him,
]saying, "You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them."
]Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying,
]"I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.
]Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
]I also heard a voice say to me, 'Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.'
]But I said, 'Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
]But a second time a voice from heaven answered, 'What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.'
]This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky.
]Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea.
]The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.
]He related to us how he had seen (the) angel standing in his house, saying, 'Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
]who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.'
]As I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning,
]and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, 'John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.'
]If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?"
]When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, "God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too."
Psalms
42(41),2-3.43(42),3.4.]As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
]Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
]Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling place.
]Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
10,1-10.]Jesus said: "Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber.
]But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.
]The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
]When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice.
]But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers."
]Although Jesus used this figure of speech, they did not realize what he was trying to tell them.
]So Jesus said again, "Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.
]All who came (before me) are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
]I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.
]A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly."
Bl. Julian of Norwich(Religious (1342-1420))
Julian of NorwichAnchorite (c. 1342 - 1420) British men and women who became hermits in the 14th century were known as anchorites. Their hermitage was a small room attached to a local church. They received Communion through one window and food through another. Hence, their hearts were always open to Christ and to the world. Julian became an anchorite at the Church of St. Edmund and St. Julian in Norwich, 100 miles northeast of London. When she was 30 years old, she contracted a severe illness. On her deathbed, she had a series of intense visions of Jesus,which ended by the time she recovered on May 13, 1373. She wrote about her visions immediately, entitled Revelations of Divine Love. It is believed to be the earliest surviving book written in English by a woman. Twenty to thirty years later, perhaps in the early 1390s, Julian began writing a theological exploration of the meaning of the visions, known as The Long Text. This work seems to have gone through many revisions before it was finished in the first or second decade of the fifteenth century.Until her passing around 1420 at the age of 78, Julian stayed in her simple room. She prayed, fasted, sewed clothes, read books and gave spiritual advice. In Revelations of Divine Love, Julian described her sixteen visions of Jesus. Her book is about God’s great compassion for us. She developed a special vocabulary, calling the Creator our mother and our father. She called Jesus the Redeemer our brother. Revelations is a celebrated work in Catholicism and Anglicanism because of the clarity and depth of Julian's visions of God. She is now recognized as one of England's most important mystics. Julian's optimistically spoke about God's love in terms of joy and compassion as opposed to law and duty. When the Black Death and peasant uprisings shaped popular theology that God inflicts suffering, Julian believed that God loves and wants to save everyone. Suffering is not a punishment, and behind the reality of hell is a greater mystery of God's love. She has been classified as a proto-universalist, although she only hoped everyone could be saved. At the time of Julian’s death, people of every nationality traveled to her cell and asked for advice. The Church never formally declared her a saint, but through the ages, people have called her Blessed. She is quoted saying,“If there is anywhere on earth a lover of God is always kept safe, I know nothing of it, for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love.”
St. John the Silent(Bishop (454 - c. 558))
SAINT JOHN THE SILENT Bishop (454 - c. 558) St. John was born in 454 to a ruling family in Nicopolis, Armenia. He received faith from his parents. When they passed away, he and ten companions built a church in honor of the Blessed Virgin and also a monastery, all by the age of 18. He was quiet, contemplative and discreet. St. John was consecrated bishop of Colonia, Armenia, by the archbishop of Sebaste in 482. In this dignity, he preserved his spirit of recollection and monastic discipline. One night in prayer, he saw a bright cross. A voice said, "If you desire to be saved, follow this light." The vision pointed to St. Sabas' monastery where 150 monks lived. St. John abdicated his episcopal office and began a novitiate there at 38 years old. At the monastery, St. John routinely fetched water, carried stones and performed manual labor. When he was presented to Patriarch Elias for consecration, his priestly character was discovered. He then departed and St. Sabas could not prevail on him to stay. In 503, St. John withdrew to a neighboring wilderness. He returned after seven years and lived for forty years in holy solitude. St. John, by his example and counsels, conducted many fervent souls to God. He emulated the angels as much as his nature allowed. Soon after the year 558, he passed from this world and joined the Church Triumphant in Heaven. He lived in holy solitude for 76 years with the exception of 9 spent in the episcopal see.
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