Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, May 30 2017

Tuesday of the Seventh week of Easter

Tuesday of the Seventh week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

20,17-27.

]From Miletus Paul had the presbyters of the Church at Ephesus summoned.
]When they came to him, he addressed them, "You know how I lived among you the whole time from the day I first came to the province of Asia.
]I served the Lord with all humility and with the tears and trials that came to me because of the plots of the Jews,
]and I did not at all shrink from telling you what was for your benefit, or from teaching you in public or in your homes.
]I earnestly bore witness for both Jews and Greeks to repentance before God and to faith in our Lord Jesus.
]But now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem. What will happen to me there I do not know,
]except that in one city after another the holy Spirit has been warning me that imprisonment and hardships await me.
]Yet I consider life of no importance to me, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to bear witness to the gospel of God's grace.
]"But now I know that none of you to whom I preached the kingdom during my travels will ever see my face again.
]And so I solemnly declare to you this day that I am not responsible for the blood of any of you,
]for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the entire plan of God."

Psalm

Psalms

68(67),10-11.20-21.

]A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance;
you restored the land when it languished;
]your flock settled in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy.
]Blessed day by day be the Lord,
who bears our burdens; God, who is our salvation.
]God is a saving God for us;
the LORD, my Lord, controls the passageways of death.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

17,1-11a.

]Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,
]just as you gave him authority over all people, so that he may give eternal life to all you gave him.
]Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
]I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.
]Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.
]I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
]Now they know that everything you gave me is from you,
]because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
]I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours,
]and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them.
]And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are."

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St. Felix I(Pope and Martyr († 274))

SAINT FELIX I Pope and Martyr ( 274) Pope Felix was St. Dionysius' sucessor. He was consecrated in the year 269. Like his predecessor, he rallied the Church during an era of persecution. Pope Felix's biography begins with the work of unifying a Church under attack from heresies. The third council of Antioch in 269 refuted Paul of Samosata's teaching that Jesus was a man who became divine. Paul of Samosata forfeited his bishopric, but only exited after being expelled by the pagan emperor. The narrator Alban Butler writes about St. Felix's end:"The persecution of Aurelian breaking out, St. Felix, fearless of danger, strengthened the weak, encouraged all, baptized the catechumens and continued to exert himself in converting persons to the Faith." He was martyred like the Apostles in 274.

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St. Joan of Arc(Heroine (1412-1431))

SAINT JOAN OF ARC Heroine (1412-1431) Saint Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412, in Domremy, northeastern France. From her earliest years, she prayed each night: "O God, save France." She thus conceived an ardent love for her country. While the English overran northern France, Joan peacefully tended her flock and learned God's wisdom through prayer at a wayside shrine. She received locutions and a vision of Saint Michael the Archangel. The Archangel bid her to liberate France from the English. Thus, she hastened to the king and convinced him of her divine mission. Scarcely did her banner - inscribed, "Jesus, Mary" - appear on the battlefield when the siege of Orleans was lifted. She afterward led Charles VII to be crowned in Rheims. She was later abandoned by the king and fell into the hands of the English, who gave her a mock trial and immolated her as a heretic. The Maid of Orleans at last came into her own: With greater pomp than ever a king was crowned, and amid the acclamations of the whole world, on May 13, 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized her Saint Joan of Arc.

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