Catholic Missal of the day: Wednesday, May 8 2019

Wednesday of the Third week of Easter

Wednesday of the Third week of Easter

1. Reading

Acts of the Apostles

8,1b-8.

]There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles.
]Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.
]Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment.
]Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word.
]Thus Philip went down to (the) city of Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them.
]With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing.
]For unclean spirits, crying out in a loud voice, came out of many possessed people, and many paralyzed and crippled people were cured.
]There was great joy in that city.

Psalm

Psalms

66(65),1-3a.4-5.6-7a.

]Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
]sing praise to the glory of his name;
proclaim his glorious praise.
]Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
]“Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you,
sing praise to your name!”
]Come and see the works of God,
his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
]He has changed the sea into dry land;
through the river they passed on foot;
therefore let us rejoice in him.
]He rules by his might forever.

Gospel

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

6,35-40.

]Jesus said to the crowds, "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
]But I told you that although you have seen (me), you do not believe.
]Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
]because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
]And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything of what he gave me, but that I should raise it on the last day.
]For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day."

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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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