Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, May 16 2017

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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Bl. Vladimir Ghika(Priest and Martyr († 1954))

BLESSED VLADIMIR GHIKA( 1954) Vladimir Ghika was a nobleman who was martyred by Romania's communist government. He was born in Constantinople on December 25, 1873. He studied political science in Paris and philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, "the Angelicum."After converting to Catholicism in 1902, he served as a diplomat for several years, including during World War I. Vladimir built Romania's first nonprofit hospital prior to the outbreak of World War I. He then advocated for patients and victims of the Balkan War and ensuing earthquakes. In 1923, he was ordained a priest. He returned to Romania when World War II broke out, served the Church in spite of Allied bombing and refused the last train out in order to serve the poor. In 1952, Vladimir was arrested by Communists. They accused him of high treason for declining to serve in the government's schismatic church. He was tortured and beaten: eventually dying of maltreatment in prison on May 16, 1954. On August 31, 2013, he was beatified by Pope Francis. The miracles attributed to his intercession and the proof of his heroic virtues opened the cause for his canonization.

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St. Brendan()

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