Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 6 2019
Monday of the Third week of Easter
Monday of the Third week of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
6,8-15.]Stephen, filled with grace and power, was working great wonders and signs among the people.
]Certain members of the so-called Synagogue of Freedmen, Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and people from Cilicia and Asia, came forward and debated with Stephen,
]but they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke.
]Then they instigated some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."
]They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, accosted him, seized him, and brought him before the Sanhedrin.
]They presented false witnesses who testified, "This man never stops saying things against (this) holy place and the law.
]For we have heard him claim that this Jesus the Nazorean will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us."
]All those who sat in the Sanhedrin looked intently at him and saw that his face was like the face of an angel.
Psalms
119(118),23-24.26-27.29-30.]Though princes meet and talk against me,
your servant meditates on your statutes.
]Yes, your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
]I declared my ways, and you answered me;
teach me your statutes.
]Make me understand the way of your precepts,
and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.
]Remove from me the way of falsehood,
and favor me with your law.
]The way of truth I have chosen;
I have set your ordinances before me.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
6,22-29.] The next day, the crowd that remained across the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gone along with his disciples in the boat, but only his disciples had left.
]Other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread when the Lord gave thanks.
]When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they themselves got into boats and came to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
]And when they found him across the sea they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
]Jesus answered them and said, "Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled.
]Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him the Father, God, has set his seal."
]So they said to him, "What can we do to accomplish the works of God?"
]Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent."
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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