Tuesday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

The crowd in Philippi joined in the attack on Paul and Silas, and the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
After inflicting many blows on them, they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.
When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and secured their feet to a stake.
About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,
there was suddenly such a severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shook; all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose.
When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew (his) sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
But Paul shouted out in a loud voice, "Do no harm to yourself; we are all here."
He asked for a light and rushed in and, trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas.
Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you and your household will be saved."
So they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.
He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized at once.
He brought them up into his house and provided a meal and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God.

Psalms

I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
I will worship at your holy temple.
I will give thanks to your name,
because of your kindness and your truth.
for you have made great above all things
your name and your promise.
When I called, you answered me;
you built up strength within me.
Your right hand saves me.
The LORD will complete what he has done for me;
your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
forsake not the work of your hands.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.
But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation:
sin, because they do not believe in me;
righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned."

St. Augustine of Canterbury(Bishop († 605))

SAINT AUGUSTINE Bishop and Apostle of England ( 605) 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, 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, they 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 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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