Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.
For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."
When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We should like to hear you on this some other time."
And so Paul left them.
But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.

Psalms

Praise the LORD from the heavens;
praise him in the heights;
praise him, all you his angels;
praise him, all you his hosts.
Let the kings of the earth and all peoples,
the princes and all the judges of the earth,
young men too, and maidens,
old men and boys.
Praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his majesty is above earth and heaven.
He has lifted up the horn of his people.
be this his praise from all his faithful ones,
from the children of Israel, the people close to him.
Alleluia.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you."

St. Bede the Venerable(Priest & Doctor of the Church (673-735))

SAINT BEDE THE VENERABLE Priest & Doctor of the Church (673-735) Venerable Bede, a saint from the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian, was consecrated to God at the age of seven and intrusted to the care of St. Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth. He became a monk in the sister-house of Jarrow, and there trained no less than six hundred scholars, whom his piety, learning, and sweet disposition had gathered round him. To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule, he added long hours of private prayer and the study of every branch of science and literature then known. He was familiar with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In the treatise which he compiled for his scholars, still extant, he threw together all that the world had then stored in history, chronology, physics, music, philosophy, poetry, arithmetic, and medicine. In his Ecclesiastical History, he has left us beautiful lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints and holy Fathers, while his commentaries on the Holy Scriptures are still in use by the Church. It was to the study of the Divine Word that he devoted the whole energy of his soul, and at times his compunction was so overpowering that his voice would break with weeping. Straining at the limits of human intellect, Bede toiled to translate scripture into his native tongue. During his later years, he suffered from constant illness; yet he worked and prayed up to his last hour. Venerable Bede was employed in translating the Gospel of St. John from Greek up to the hour of his death, which took place on Ascension Day, 735. "He spent that day joyfully," writes one of his scholars. In the evening, the boy attendeding him said, "Dear master, there is yet one sentence unwritten." He answered, "Write it quickly." Presently the youth said, "Now it is written." He replied, "Good! thou hast said the truth-consummatum est; take my head and face me toward the old praying-place, so I may call upon my Father." And so, on the floor of his cell, he sang, "Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;" and just as he said "Holy Ghost," he breathed his last, and went to the realms above.

St. Gregory VII(Pope (c. 1013-1085))

SAINT GREGORY VII Pope (c. 1013 - 1085) Gregory VII, by name Hildebrand, was born in Tuscany about the year 1013. Educated in Rome, he went to France and became a monk at Cluny. When he returned, he filled high trusts of the Holy See for many years. Three great evils then afflicted the Church: simony, concubinage, and the custom of receiving investiture from lay hands. Against these three corruptions, Gregory never ceased to contend. As legate of Victor II, he condemned simony at a Council in Lyons. When Gregory was elected Pope in 1073, he immediately ordered the clergy to reject secular influence on Church affairs. Rome was then in rebellion through the ambition of the Cenci. They laid hands on him at Christmas during the midnight Mass, wounded him and cast him into prison. The following day, he was rescued by the people. Next arose Gregory's conflict with Henry IV, Emperor of Germany. After Henry relapsed into simony, and pretended to depose the Pope, Gregory excommunicated him. Henry's subjects then turned against him and he sought absolution from the Pope at Canossa.Unfortunately, Henry's insincerity and ambitiousness got the better of him. He set up an antipope and besieged Gregory in the castle of St. Angelo.The aged pontiff was obliged to flee. On May 25, 1085, about the seventy-second year of his life and the twelfth of his pontificate, Gregory went to his eternal reward. The miracles proceeding from his intercession and the proof of his heroic virtues saw him canonized in 1748.

Bl. Mykola Tsehelskyi(Priest & Martyr (1896-1951))

Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi Greek-Catholic Priest and Martyr (1896-1951) Mykola Tsehelskyi was born on December 17, 1896 in the village of Strusiv, Ternopil District, Ukraine. In 1923, he completed his course in the theological faculty at Lviv University. On April 5, 1925, Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytsky ordained him to the priesthood. He was a zealous priest who took care of the spirituality, education and welfare of his parishioners. He was the parish priest in the village of Soroko, where he built a new church. After World War II, the era of total repressions began. Fr. Mykola personally experienced intimidation, threats and beatings. On October 28, 1946, Fr. Mykola was arrested. On January 27, 1947, he was sentenced to ten years in prison. Although he had a wife, two sons and two daughters, he was deported to labour camps in Mordovia. He lived in extremely horrid conditions, in a camp that was notoriously strict and cruel. Fr. Mykola suffered from severe pain and died a martyr on May 25, 1951. Miracles from his intercession and proof of his heroic virtues show that he entered eternal life. He was beatified with twenty four other Greek-Catholics by Pope St. John Paul II on June 27, 2001 at Lliv.

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