Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 17 2017

Wednesday of the Fifth week of Easter

Wednesday of the Fifth week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

15,1-6.

]Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved."
]Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and presbyters about this question.
]They were sent on their journey by the church, and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria telling of the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
]When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, as well as by the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported what God had done with them.
]But some from the party of the Pharisees who had become believers stood up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Mosaic law."
]The apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter.

Psalm

Psalms

122(121),1-2.3-4a.4b-5.

]I rejoiced because they said to me,
"We will go up to the house of the LORD."
]And now we have set foot
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
]Jerusalem, built as a city
with compact unity.
]To it the tribes go up,
]To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
]In it are set up judgment seats,
seats for the house of David.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

15,1-8.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
]He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
]You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
]Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
]I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
]Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
]If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
]By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

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St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas(Foundress (1783-1854))

Saint Joachina de Vedruna (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) St. Joachina was a Catalonian noblewoman who founded the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. Before becoming a religious, she married Theodore de Mas, a man from a royal family in Barcelona, Spain, in 1799. They had nine children before Theodore was killed during Napoleon's invasion in 1816. After her husband's passing, Joachina moved with her children to their estate in Vic. She started charitable activities for the sick and for young women. Her spiritual director, the Capuchin Esteban de Olot, suggested establishing an apostolic congregation devoted to education and charity. Joachina established a Congregation that cared for the sick, the poor and anyone in need of education. They built houses for the homeless and started schools in poor areas. The bishop of Vic, Pablo Jesús Corcuera, told Joachina that the institute should be of Carmelite inspiration and wrote its rule on February 6, 1826. Twenty days later, Joachina and eight companions professed vows. In a few years, Joachina's Carmelites founded several houses in Catalonia. During the First Carlist War (a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839), she fled the country after a hospital that she founded in the Carlist town of Berga was threatened by fighting. As a result, she went to Roussillon, France, where she stayed from 1836 to 1842. Joachina's apostolic congregation was definitively approved in 1850. Despite serious challenges posed by civil war and secular opposition, the institute soon spread throughout Catalonia. Soon after, communities were established throughout Spain and South America. Eventually, Joachina was forced to resign as superior because of illness. Joachina passed away during a cholera epidemic in Barcelona after suffering from paralysis for four years. By the time of her death in 1854, at the age of 71, she was known and admired for her deep trust in God and selfless charity. She was beatifiedin1940 and canonized in 1959.

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St. Paschal Baylon()

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