Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 6 2026

Wednesday of the Fifth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

Some who had come down from Judea were instructing the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the Mosaic practice, you cannot be saved."
Because there arose no little dissension and debate by Paul and Barnabas with them, it was decided that Paul, Barnabas, and some of the others should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and presbyters about this question.
They were sent on their journey by the church, and passed through Phoenicia and Samaria telling of the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers.
When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church, as well as by the apostles and the presbyters, and they reported what God had done with them.
But some from the party of the Pharisees who had become believers stood up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Mosaic law."
The apostles and the presbyters met together to see about this matter.

Psalms

I rejoiced because they said to me,
"We will go up to the house of the LORD."
And now we have set foot
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, built as a city
with compact unity.
To it the tribes go up,
To it the tribes go up,
the tribes of the LORD.
In it are set up judgment seats,
seats for the house of David.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower.
He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does he prunes so that it bears more fruit.
You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you.
Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing.
Anyone who does not remain in me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned.
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you.
By this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples."

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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