Catholic Missal of the day: Sunday, May 6 2018
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Sixth Sunday of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
10,25-26.34-35.44-48.]When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet, paid him homage.
]Peter, however, raised him up, saying, "Get up. I myself am also a human being."
]Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, "In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.
]Rather, in every nation, whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.
]While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word.
]The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also,
]for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded,
]"Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the holy Spirit even as we have?"
]He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.
Psalms
98(97),1.2-3ab.3cd-4.]Sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done wondrous deeds;
His right hand has won victory for him,
his holy arm.
]The LORD has made his salvation known:
in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.
]He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness
]toward the house of Israel.
]All the ends of the earth have seen
]the salvation by our God.
]Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
break into song; sing praise.
First Letter of John
4,7-10.]Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
]Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
]In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.
]In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
15,9-17.]Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.
]If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
]I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete."
]This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
]No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
]You are my friends if you do what I command you.
]I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
]It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
]This I command you: love one another."
Bl. Anna Rosa Gattorno(Foundress (1831-1900))
BLESSED ANNA ROSA GATTORNO (1831-1900) "My love, what can I do to make the whole world love you? ... Make use once again of this instrument to renew the faith and the conversion of sinners." This generous outburst, uttered at the feet of her 'Supreme Good' who drew her ever closer to Him constituted the deepest yearning of Anna Rosa Gattorno's heart. Anna Rosa was born in Genoa on October 14, 1831, to an authentically Christian, well-to-do family. She was baptized the same day in the S. Donato parish and was named Anna Rosa Maria Benedetta. Anna Rosa and her five siblings received their first human and spiritual formation from their parents, Francesco and Adelaide Campanella. When Anna Rosa was 12 years old, she was confirmed at S. Maria delle Vigne by Cardinal Archbishop Tadini. As an adolescent, Anna Rosa was educated at home, which was customary for the wealthy. She had a serene and loveable character, and was pious and charitable. She was nonetheless firm and knew how to react to the confrontations of political and anticlerical ideologies. Some members of the Gattorno family were similarly affected. At 21 years old, Anna Rosa married her cousin Gerolamo Custo (November 5, 1852). They moved to Marseilles, but unplanned financial difficulties forced them to move to Genoa. Calamity struck when their first child Carlotta became deaf and dumb after a sudden illness. Gerolamo was unsuccessful abroad and succumbed to a fatal illness (March 9, 1858). The two younger children were deeply affected; and Anna Rosa lost her youngest son a few months later. The calamities marked a radical change in Anna Rosa's life, which she called a "conversion" to the total gift of herself to the Lord, to his love and to love of neighbor. Purified by her trials and strengthened in spirit, she understood the redemptive meaning of suffering. She also discerned a vocation. Under the guidance of her confessor, Fr. Giuseppe Firpo, Anna Rosa made private perpetual vows of chastity and obedience on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1858. She made vows of poverty as a Franciscan tertiary in 1861. She received daily communion since 1855. She was anchored to the source of grace and conducted a zealous apostolate. In 1862, she received the gift of hidden stigmata, perceived most intensely on Fridays. Anna Rosa wrote: "I dedicated myself with greater zeal to pious works and to visiting hospitals and the poor sick at home, helping them by meeting their needs as much as I could and serving them in all things." Progressing on this path, she was made president of the "Pious Union of the New Ursulines Daughters of Holy Mary Immaculate," founded by Frassinetti, and was entrusted with the revision of the Rule by Archbishop Charvaz.On that precise occasion (February 1864), she received the inspiration for a new Rule and her own specific Foundation. Anna Rosa's vision was supported by a lay Capuchin saint, Francis of Camporosso, her confessor, and the archbishop of Genoa. She sought confirmation from Pius IX, and was tempted by the thought of being denied and leading a comfortable life. During an audience with the pope on January 3, 1866, he said to begin the foundation and added: "This Institute will spread in all the parts of the world as swiftly as the flight of the dove." She wrote in her Memoirs: "I generously offered them (my children) to God and repeated to him Abraham's words: 'Here I am, ready to do your divine will'.... Having offered myself for his Work, I received immense consolations..." Anna Rosa departed Genoa and founded her new religious family in Piacenza. She named it, "Daughters of St. Anne, Mother of Mary Immaculate" (December 8, 1866). She was clothed on July 26, 1867, and on April 8, 1870, made her religious profession, together with twelve sisters. Fr. Tornatore, a priest of the Congregation of the Mission, collaborated with her in the Institute's development. He was requested to write the Rule and was the Institute's co-founder. Anna Rosa established services for the poor, the sick, the elderly and the abandoned. She provided training and integration for vulnerable girls and opened schools for the children of the poor. She called her daughters "Servants of the poor and ministers of mercy." She instructed them: "Be humble ... only think that you are the least of the Church's servants ... and have the grace to belong to her." Less than ten years after its foundation, the Institute obtained the Decree of Praise in 1876. It gained definitive approval in 1879, and its Rule was confirmed 1892. Mother Anna also worked in Piacenza with Bishop Scalabrini, now beatified, and in particular at the institute for deaf-mutes, which he founded. The Daughters of St. Anne spread rapidly in Italy and abroad. The following words, written by the Foundress, were fulfilled: "Oh my Love! How I feel myself burning with the desire to make you known and loved by all! I would like to attract all the world, to give to all, to appease all ... I would like to go everywhere and shout out for everybody to come and love you." In 1878, Anna Maria sent the first Daughters to Bolivia, then to Brazil, Chile, Peru, Eritrea, France and Spain. In Rome, where she began, she organised boys' and girls' schools for the poor, nursery schools, assistance for the new-born babies of workers in the tobacco factory, houses for former prostitutes, serving women, nurses for home care, etc. There she also had the Generalate built, with its adjacent church. In February 1900, Mother Anna Rosa caught a dangerous form of influenza; and her health rapidly deteriorated. On 4 May, she received the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Two days later, at 9.00 a.m., she died a holy death in the Generalate. Her fame of holiness, which surrounded her during life, increased after her death. At her passing, there were 368 houses and 3,500 sisters carrying out the work. In her roles as wife, mother, religious and Foundress, Rosa Gattorno brought great honor to the "feminine genius." She remained a mother to her own children, who she constantly followed, to the Sisters, and to all the needy, the suffering and the unhappy, in whose souls she saw the face of Christ, poor, wounded and crucified. Her charism present in her other institutes: Sisters of Contemplative Life, Religious Association of Priests, the Secular Institute and the Ecclesial Movement for the Laity, which are active in the Church in almost all the parts of the world. Mother Anna Rosa was beatified by Pope John Paul II on April 9, 2000 in Rome.
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