Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 13 2026

Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.
For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."
When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We should like to hear you on this some other time."
And so Paul left them.
But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.

Psalms

Praise the LORD from the heavens;
praise him in the heights;
praise him, all you his angels;
praise him, all you his hosts.
Let the kings of the earth and all peoples,
the princes and all the judges of the earth,
young men too, and maidens,
old men and boys.
Praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his majesty is above earth and heaven.
He has lifted up the horn of his people.
be this his praise from all his faithful ones,
from the children of Israel, the people close to him.
Alleluia.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you."

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. Through one window, they received communion; and through the other window, food. Hence, the anchorites' 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 north-east 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 through the teaching, prayers and example of his parents. After their passing, he built a church in honor of the Blessed Virgin and also a monastery with the help of ten fervent companions: all by the age of 18. He was quiet and contemplative and spoke with discretion. 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 before him a bright cross. He heard a voice say, "If you desire to be saved, follow this light." The vision pointed to the monastery of St. Sabas. John later abdicated the episcopal office and retired to the monastery of St. Sabas where 150 monks lived. He was 38 years old. At the monastery, John routinely fetched water, carried stones and performed manual labor. When he was presented to Patriarch Elias for consecration, St. Sabas discovered his bishopric and rebuked him. John then departed the monastery and St. Sabas could not prevail on him to stay. In 503, John withdrew to a neighboring wilderness. Seven years later, he returned; and lived in holy solitude for forty years. 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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