Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, May 17 2026

Seventh Sunday of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

After Jesus had been taken up to heaven the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away.
When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

Psalms

The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom should I fear?
The LORD is my life's refuge;
of whom should I be afraid?
One thing I ask of the LORD
this I seek:
to dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
that I may gaze on the loveliness of the LORD
and contemplate his temple.  
Hear, O LORD, the sound of my call;
have pity on me, and answer me.
Of you my heart speaks; you my glance seeks.

First Letter of Peter

Beloved rejoice to the extent that you share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly.
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
But let no one among you be made to suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as an intriguer.
But whoever is made to suffer as a Christian should not be ashamed but glorify God because of the name.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,
just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him.
Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.
Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.
I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,
because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,
and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.
And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are."

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

Saint Joachina de Vedruna (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854) St. Joachina was a Catalonian nun who founded the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity. She was a noblewoman and a religious. Joachina 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. He 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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