Catholic Missal of the day: Saturday, May 27 2017

Saturday of the Sixth week of Easter

Saturday of the Sixth week of Easter

1. Reading

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.

Psalm

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.

Gospel

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. Augustine of Canterbury(Bishop († 605))

SAINT AUGUSTINE Bishop and Apostle of England ( 605) Saint Augustine was the prior of St. Andrew's Monastery on the Cœlian Hill when St. Gregory appointed him to lead the missionaries sent to England. Hearing reports of Anglo-Saxon barbarity, St. Augustine's companions wanted to turn back. St. Gregory replied, "Push forward in God's name. The greater your hardships, the greater your crown. If I cannot share your toil, I shall yet share the harvest, for God knows it is not good will that is wanting." Obediently, the band pushed forward. After landing in Ebbsfleet, between Sandwich and Ramsgate, the party met King Ethelbert and his thanes under a great oak-tree in Minster and announced the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Instant and complete success attended their preaching. On Whit-Sunday, 596, King Ethelbert was baptized; and his example was followed by the greater number of his nobles and people. The Faith spread far and wide, and St. Augustine, as Papal Legate, set out on a visitation of Britain. He failed to convert the Britons of the west, but was successful and triumphant from south to north. He passed away after eight years of evangelizing. The Anglo-Saxon Church he founded is renowned for its learning, zeal and devotion to the Holy See. Its calendar commemorates no less than three hundred saints, half of whom were of royal birth.

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