Catholic Missal of the day: Tuesday, May 8 2018

Tuesday of the Sixth week of Easter

Tuesday of the Sixth week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

16,22-34.

]The crowd in Philippi joined in the attack on Paul and Silas, and the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be beaten with rods.
]After inflicting many blows on them, they threw them into prison and instructed the jailer to guard them securely.
]When he received these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and secured their feet to a stake.
]About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God as the prisoners listened,
]there was suddenly such a severe earthquake that the foundations of the jail shook; all the doors flew open, and the chains of all were pulled loose.
]When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew (his) sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.
]But Paul shouted out in a loud voice, "Do no harm to yourself; we are all here."
]He asked for a light and rushed in and, trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas.
]Then he brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"
]And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you and your household will be saved."
]So they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to everyone in his house.
]He took them in at that hour of the night and bathed their wounds; then he and all his family were baptized at once.
]He brought them up into his house and provided a meal and with his household rejoiced at having come to faith in God.

Psalm

Psalms

138(137),1-2ab.2cde-3.7c.8.

]I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,
for you have heard the words of my mouth;
in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;
]I will worship at your holy temple.
]I will give thanks to your name,
]because of your kindness and your truth.
]for you have made great above all things
]your name and your promise.
]When I called, you answered me;
you built up strength within me.
]Your right hand saves me.
]The LORD will complete what he has done for me;
your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
forsake not the work of your hands.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

16,5-11.

]Jesus said to his disciples: "Now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
]But because I told you this, grief has filled your hearts.
]But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go. For if I do not go, the Advocate will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
]And when he comes he will convict the world in regard to sin and righteousness and condemnation:
]sin, because they do not believe in me;
]righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see me;
]condemnation, because the ruler of this world has been condemned."

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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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