Catholic Missal of the day: Thursday, May 17 2018

Thursday of the Seventh week of Easter

Thursday of the Seventh week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

22,30.23,6-11.

]Wishing to determine the truth about why Paul was being accused by the Jews, the commander freed him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and made him stand before them.
]Paul was aware that some were Sadducees and some Pharisees, so he called out before the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees; (I) am on trial for hope in the resurrection of the dead."
]When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the group became divided.
]For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection or angels or spirits, while the Pharisees acknowledge all three.
]A great uproar occurred, and some scribes belonging to the Pharisee party stood up and sharply argued, "We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?"
]The dispute was so serious that the commander, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, ordered his troops to go down and rescue him from their midst and take him into the compound.
]The following night the Lord stood by him and said, "Take courage. For just as you have borne witness to my cause in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness in Rome."

Psalm

Psalms

16(15),1-2a.5.7-8.9-10.11.

]Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
]I say to the LORD, "My Lord are you."
]O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.
]I bless the LORD who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
]I set the LORD ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.
]Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
my body, too, abides in confidence
]because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld,
nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.
]You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

17,20-26.

]Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying: "I pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
]so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
]And I have given them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one,
]I in them and you in me, that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that you sent me, and that you loved them even as you loved me.
]Father, they are your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that you gave me, because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
]Righteous Father, the world also does not know you, but I know you, and they know that you sent me.
]I made known to them your name and I will make it known, that the love with which you loved me may be in them and I in them."

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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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