Saturday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

18,23-28.

After staying there some time, Paul left and traveled in orderly sequence through the Galatian country and Phrygia, bringing strength to all the disciples.
A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent speaker, arrived in Ephesus. He was an authority on the scriptures.
He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and, with ardent spirit, spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John.
He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way (of God) more accurately.
And when he wanted to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. After his arrival he gave great assistance to those who had come to believe through grace.
He vigorously refuted the Jews in public, establishing from the scriptures that the Messiah is Jesus.

Psalms

47(46),2-3.8-9.10.

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.
For king of all the earth is God;
sing hymns of praise.
God reigns over the nations,
God sits upon his holy throne.
The princes of the peoples are gathered together
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For God's are the guardians of the earth;
he is supreme.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

16,23b-28.

Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father.
On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father."

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St. Bernardine of Siena (1380-1444)()

SAINT BERNARDINE OF SIENA Franciscan Priest (1380-1444) In 1408, St. Vincent Ferrer once suddenly interrupted his sermon to declare that there was among his hearers a young Franciscan who would one day be a greater preacher than himself. This unknown friar was Bernardine. In his youth, Bernardine undertook the charge of a holy elderly woman, a relation of his, who had been left destitute. She was blind and bedridden, and during her long illness could only utter the Holy Name. Bernardine cared for her till she passed away, and thus learned the devotion of his life. Owing to a speech impediment, Bernardine's success as a preacher seemed doubtful, but, by the prayers of Our Lady, this obstacle was miraculously removed, and Bernardine began an apostolate which lasted thirty-eight years. By his inspired words and the Holy Name of Jesus, which he displayed on a tablet at the end of his sermons, Bernardine obtained miraculous conversions and reformed the greater part of Italy. Bernardine's success had to be exalted by the cross. The Saint was denounced as a heretic and his devotion as idolatrous. After many trials, he lived to see his innocence proved, and a lasting memorial of his work established in the Church. The Feast of the Holy Name commemorates at once his sufferings and his triumph. Bernardine passed away on Ascension Eve, 1444, while his brethren were chanting the antiphon, "Father, I have manifested Thy Name to men."

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