Catholic Missal of the day: Monday, May 8 2017
Monday of the Fourth week of Easter
Monday of the Fourth week of Easter
1. ReadingActs of the Apostles
11,1-18.]The Apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles too had accepted the word of God.
]So when Peter went up to Jerusalem the circumcised believers confronted him,
]saying, "You entered the house of uncircumcised people and ate with them."
]Peter began and explained it to them step by step, saying,
]"I was at prayer in the city of Joppa when in a trance I had a vision, something resembling a large sheet coming down, lowered from the sky by its four corners, and it came to me.
]Looking intently into it, I observed and saw the four-legged animals of the earth, the wild beasts, the reptiles, and the birds of the sky.
]I also heard a voice say to me, 'Get up, Peter. Slaughter and eat.'
]But I said, 'Certainly not, sir, because nothing profane or unclean has ever entered my mouth.'
]But a second time a voice from heaven answered, 'What God has made clean, you are not to call profane.'
]This happened three times, and then everything was drawn up again into the sky.
]Just then three men appeared at the house where we were, who had been sent to me from Caesarea.
]The Spirit told me to accompany them without discriminating. These six brothers also went with me, and we entered the man's house.
]He related to us how he had seen (the) angel standing in his house, saying, 'Send someone to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter,
]who will speak words to you by which you and all your household will be saved.'
]As I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning,
]and I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, 'John baptized with water but you will be baptized with the holy Spirit.'
]If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?"
]When they heard this, they stopped objecting and glorified God, saying, "God has then granted life-giving repentance to the Gentiles too."
Psalms
42(41),2-3.43(42),3.4.]As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
]Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
]Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling place.
]Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John
10,11-18.]Jesus said: "I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
]A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.
]This is because he works for pay and has no concern for the sheep.
]I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me,
]just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I will lay down my life for the sheep.
]I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd.
]This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.
]No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father."
Bl. Teresa Demjanovich(Religious (1901-1927))
Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, S.C.(March 26, 1901–May 8, 1927) Bl. Miriam Teresa's beatification ceremony was the first to take place in the United States. She was born Teresa Demjanovich in Bayonne, New Jersey, on March 26, 1901, the youngest of seven children. Her parents, Alexander Demjanovich and Johanna Suchy, were Ruthenian immigrants to the United States from what is now eastern Slovakia. Teresa received baptism, confirmation and her first holy communion in the Byzantine Ruthenian rite of her parents. Teresa felt called to religious life from a very young age, but postponed it to care for her ill mother. Her family encouraged her to pursue a college education and she attended the College of St. Elizabeth. After graduating with highest honors in 1923, she pursued a religious vocation. Teresa sought admission to the discalced Carmelites, but was discouraged by the superiors because of her frail health. She considered a teaching order; and for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, made a novena. At the novena's conclusion on December 8, she decided to enter the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth. She never received an official transfer of rite: remaining a Byzantine Rite Catholic in a Roman Rite congregation. As a postulant and novice, Teresa taught at the Academy of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station from 1925 to 1926. In June 1926, her spiritual director, Father Benedict Bradley, O.S.B., asked her to write the conferences for the novitiate. She wrote 26 conferences that were published in a book after her death. In November 1926, Teresa became ill. After a tonsillectomy, she returned to the convent, but was soon diagnosed with myocarditis and acute appendicitis. Doctors did not think she was strong enough for an operation and her condition worsened. Her profession of permanent religious vows was made "in articulo mortis" (danger of death) on April 2, 1927. She received an operation for appendicitis on May 6, 1927, but passed away two days later. Favors and cures attributed to Teresa's intercession are continually being reported. On December 17, 2013, Pope Francis approved the attribution of a miraculous healing to the intercession of Demjanovich, opening the way to her beatification. Teresa Demjanovich was beatified at a ceremony on October 4, 2014, held at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
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