Friday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

18,9-18.

One night while Paul was in Corinth, the Lord said to him in a vision , "Do not be afraid. Go on speaking, and do not be silent,
for I am with you. No one will attack and harm you, for I have many people in this city."
He settled there for a year and a half and taught the word of God among them.
But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up together against Paul and brought him to the tribunal,
saying, "This man is inducing people to worship God contrary to the law."
When Paul was about to reply, Gallio spoke to the Jews, "If it were a matter of some crime or malicious fraud, I should with reason hear the complaint of you Jews;
but since it is a question of arguments over doctrine and titles and your own law, see to it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of such matters."
And he drove them away from the tribunal.
They all seized Sosthenes, the synagogue official, and beat him in full view of the tribunal. But none of this was of concern to Gallio.
Paul remained for quite some time, and after saying farewell to the brothers he sailed for Syria, together with Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had his hair cut because he had taken a vow.

Psalms

47(46),2-3.4-5.6-7.

All you peoples, clap your hands;
shout to God with cries of gladness.
For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,
is the great king over all the earth.
He brings people under us;
nations under our feet.
He chooses for us our inheritance,
the glory of Jacob, whom he loves.
God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy;
the LORD, amid trumpet blasts.
Sing praise to God, sing praise;
sing praise to our king, sing praise.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

16,20-23a.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you."

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St. Peter Celestine(Pope (1221-1296))

SAINT PETER CELESTINE V Pope (1221-1296) As a child, Peter had visions of our Blessed Lady, the angels and saints. They encouraged his prayer and chided him when he fell into any fault. His mother, though a poor widow, sent him to school feeling that he would one day be a saint. At the age of twenty, Peter left his home in Apulia to live in a mountain solitude. Here, he passed three years; and was assaulted by evil spirits. They set upon him with physical attacks and temptations of the flesh. His loyalty to God was even more pleasing when consolations and ecstasies were removed. The demonic retaliations were similar to those suffered by St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Padre Pio and many others. Amidst his struggles with the demonic, angels attended and consoled him. When Peter's seclusion was interrupted by disciples who refused to be sent away, he set a rule of life that became the foundation of the Celestine Order. Angels assisted in the church that Peter built, unseen bells rang peals of surpassing sweetness, and heavenly music filled the sanctuary when he offered the Holy Sacrifice. Peter abruptly found himself torn from his loved solitude by his election to the papacy. His resistance was of no avail. He took the name of Celestine to remind himself of the heaven he was leaving and for which he sighed; and was consecrated at Aquila. After serving for four months, Peter summoned the cardinals to his presence and solemnly resigned his trust. Peter built himself a boarded cell in his palace and there continued his hermit's life. Lest his simplicity be taken advantage of, he was put under guard. He said, "I desired nothing but a cell, and a cell they have given me." He enjoyed his former loving intimacy with the saints and angels, and sang divine praises almost continually. At length, on Whit-Sunday, he told his guards he should die within the week, and immediately fell ill. He received the last sacraments; and the following Saturday, as he finished the concluding verse of Lauds, "Let every spirit bless the Lord!" he closed his eyes to this world and opened them to eternity.

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St. Yvo(Priest (1253-1303))

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SAINT YVO Priest (1253-1303) St. Yvo Helori was from a virtuous patrician family near Treguier, Brittany. When he was fourteen, he went to Paris and later Orleans to study. His mother often encouraged him to live in a manner becoming of a saint, to which he would respond, "I hope to be." This resolution took deep root in Yvo's soul, spurring him to virtue and checking the least shadow of any dangerous course. Yvo's time was chiefly divided between study and prayer. For works of mercy, he visited hospitals to attend and comfort the sick. He made a private vow of perpetual chastity, but this not being known, many honorable matches were proposed to him, which he modestly rejected as incompatible with his studious life. He long deliberated whether to embrace a religious or a clerical state, but the desire of serving his neighbor made him choose the latter. He wished, out of humility, to remain in the lesser orders, but his bishop compelled him to receive the priesthood. He had qualified himself for that sacred dignity through the utmost purity of mind and body, and by a long and fervent preparation. He was appointed ecclesiastical judge for the diocese of Rennes. Fr. Yvo protected orphans and widows, defended the poor, and administered justice to all with an impartiality, application and tenderness that gained him the good-will even of those who lost their causes. He was surnamed the advocate and lawyer of the poor. He built a house near his own for a hospital of the poor and sick. He washed their feet, cleansed their ulcers, served them at table and helped himself last of all, taking meager portions. He distributed his corn, or the price for which he sold it, among the poor immediately after the harvest. When a certain person endeavored to persuade him to keep it some months, that he might sell it at a better price, he answered, "I know not whether I shall be then alive to give it." Another time, the same person said to him, "I have gained a fifth by keeping my corn." "But I," replied the Saint, "a hundredfold by giving it immediately away." During the Lent of 1303, Fr. Yvo felt his strength failing him. Yet, far from abating anything in his austerities, he thought himself obliged to redouble his fervor. On the eve of the Ascension, he preached, said Mass while being upheld by two persons, and gave advice to all who addressed themselves to him. After this, he lay down on his bed, which was a hurdle of twigs plaited together, and received the last sacraments. From that moment, he entertained himself with God alone, till his soul went to possess Him in His glory.He joined the Church Triumphant on May 19, 1303, in the fiftieth year of his age.

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