Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 27 2019

Monday of the Sixth week of Easter

Monday of the Sixth week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

16,11-15.

]We set sail from Troas, making a straight run for Samothrace, and on the next day to Neapolis,
]and from there to Philippi, a leading city in that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We spent some time in that city.
]On the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river where we thought there would be a place of prayer. We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there.
]One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying.
]After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home," and she prevailed on us.

Psalm

Psalms

149(148),1-2.3-4.5-6a.9b.

]Sing to the LORD a new song
of praise in the assembly of the faithful.
]Let Israel be glad in their maker,
let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.
]Let them praise his name in the festive dance,
let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.
]For the LORD loves his people,
and he adorns the lowly with victory.
]Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy upon their couches;
]Let the high praises of God be in their throats.
]This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia!

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

15,26-27.16,1-4a.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me.
]And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.
]I have told you this so that you may not fall away.
]They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God.
]They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.
]I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you."

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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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