Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 29 2019
Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter
Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
17,15.22-34.18,1.]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
148(147),1-2.11-12ab.12c-14a.14bcd.]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
16,12-15.]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. Ursula (Giulia) Ledóchowska(Religious (1865 - 1939))
St. Ursula (Giulia) Ledóchowska Religious (1865-1939) "If only I knew how to love, to burn and consume oneself in love." Giulia Ledóchowska wrote those words at 24 years old before professing vows as a novice at the Ursuline convent in Krakow. She took the name "Maria Ursula of Jesus," and the words she wrote became the guidelines of her entire life. In her mothers' family of Swiss nationality, from the dynasty of the Salis, and her father's Polish family, there were many politicians, military men and ecclesiastics. They were involved in the history of Europe and the Church. St. Ursula was raised in a large family where affectionate and disciplined love was given freely. The first three children, included her, chose the consecrated life: Maria Teresa (beatified in 1975) founded the Society of S. Peter Claver, and the younger brother, Vladimiro, became the father general of the Jesuits. St. Ursula lived at the convent in Krakow for 21 years. Her love for the Lord, educational talent and sensibility toward the youth put her at the center of attention. When women won the right to study in universities, she organized the first boarding house in Poland for female students. The students found a safe place to live and study and received a solid religious preparation. Her passion, together with Pope Pio X's blessing, gave her the strength to move to Russia, which was hostile toward the Church and prohibited religious life. When she left with another sister for Petersburg, she did not know that the Holy Spirit would lead her on unforeseen paths. In Petersburg, St. Ursula, with a steadily-growing community of nuns, established an autonomous structure of the Ursulines. They lived discreetly, under constant surveillance by the secret police. They brought forward an intense educational and religious project that also encouraged friendship between Poles and Russians. When war broke out in 1914, St. Ursula departed Russia for Stockholm. During her travels to Sweden, Denmark and Norway, she concentrated on education, the life of the local Church, giving aid to war victims and ecumenical work. The house where she lived with her sisters became a point of reference for people of different political and religious orientations. Her strong love for country was equal to her love of diversity and acceptance of others. Once asked to speak of her political orientation, she promptly answered, "My policy is love." In 1920, St. Ursula, her sisters and a large number of immigrants' orphaned children returned to Poland. The Apostolic Headquarters transformed its autonomous convent to the Ursulines of the Sacred Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Their spirituality concentrated on contemplating of the salvific love of Christ and participation in His mission by means of educational projects and service to others, particularly to the suffering, the lonely and the abandoned. They also established communities on the country's eastern frontiers. In 1928, the Generalate was established in Rome along with a boarding house for underprivileged girls. The Sisters also began working in Rome's poor suburbs. In 1930, they accompanied girls in search of work and established themselves in France. St.Ursula educated her sisters to love God above everything else and to find God in every human being and in all creation. By means of her smile, serenity and capacity to live the ordinary, everyday routine as a privileged road toward holiness, she gave a particularly credible testimony to the personal bond with Christ. She participated in the life of the Church and State and received great acknowledgement and decorations from both. When she passed away in Rome on May 29, 1939, people said she died a saint. Pope John Paul II beatified her on June 20, 1983, in Poznan; and canonized her on May 18, 2003, in Rome.
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