Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, May 17 2019

Friday of the Fourth week of Easter

Friday of the Fourth week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

13,26-33.

]When Paul came to Antioch in Pisidia, he said in the synagogue:   "My brothers, children of the family of Abraham,  and those others among you who are God-fearing,  to us this word of salvation has been sent.
]The inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders failed to recognize him, and by condemning him they fulfilled the oracles of the prophets that are read sabbath after sabbath.
]For even though they found no grounds for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him put to death,
]and when they had accomplished all that was written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb.
]But God raised him from the dead,
]and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are (now) his witnesses before the people.
]We ourselves are proclaiming this good news to you that what God promised our ancestors
]he has brought to fulfillment for us, (their) children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, 'You are my son; this day I have begotten you.'"

Psalm

Psalms

2,6-7.8-9.10-11.

]"I myself have set up my king
on Zion, my holy mountain."
]I will proclaim the decree of the LORD:
The LORD said to me, "You are my Son;
this day I have begotten you."
]"Ask of me and I will give you the nations for an inheritance
and the ends of the earth for your possession.
]You shall rule them with an iron rod;
you shall shatter them like an earthen dish."
]And now, O kings, give heed;
take warning, you rulers of the earth.
]Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice before him;
with trembling rejoice.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

14,1-6.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me.
]In my Father's house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?
]And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.
]Where (I) am going you know the way."
]Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?"
]Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

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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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