Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

After Paul's escorts had taken him to Athens, they came away with instructions for Silas and Timothy to join him as soon as possible.
Then Paul stood up at the Areopagus and said: "You Athenians, I see that in every respect you are very religious.
For as I walked around looking carefully at your shrines, I even discovered an altar inscribed, 'To an Unknown God.' What therefore you unknowingly worship, I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and all that is in it, the Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries made by human hands,
nor is he served by human hands because he needs anything. Rather it is he who gives to everyone life and breath and everything.
He made from one the whole human race to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he fixed the ordered seasons and the boundaries of their regions,
so that people might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us.
For 'In him we live and move and have our being,' as even some of your poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'
Since therefore we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divinity is like an image fashioned from gold, silver, or stone by human art and imagination.
God has overlooked the times of ignorance, but now he demands that all people everywhere repent
because he has established a day on which he will 'judge the world with justice' through a man he has appointed, and he has provided confirmation for all by raising him from the dead."
When they heard about resurrection of the dead, some began to scoff, but others said, "We should like to hear you on this some other time."
And so Paul left them.
But some did join him, and became believers. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
After this he left Athens and went to Corinth.

Psalms

Praise the LORD from the heavens;
praise him in the heights;
praise him, all you his angels;
praise him, all you his hosts.
Let the kings of the earth and all peoples,
the princes and all the judges of the earth,
young men too, and maidens,
old men and boys.
Praise the name of the LORD,
for his name alone is exalted;
his majesty is above earth and heaven.
He has lifted up the horn of his people.
be this his praise from all his faithful ones,
from the children of Israel, the people close to him.
Alleluia.

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you."

Bl. Teresa Demjanovich()

Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, S.C.(March 26, 1901–May 8, 1927) Bl. Miriam Teresa is an American Ruthenian Catholic Sister of Charitybeatified by the Catholic Church. The ceremony for this was the first to take place in the United States. She was born Teresa Demjanovich in Bayonne, New Jersey, on March 26, 1901. She was the youngest of seven children born to Alexander Demjanovich and Johanna Suchy: Ruthenian immigrants to the United States from what is now eastern Slovakia. She received baptism, confirmation and her first holy communion in the Byzantine Ruthenian rite of her parents. Teresa felt called to the religious life from a very young age, but she put it on hold to care for her ill mother. Her family encouraged her to pursue a college education, so she attended the College of St. Elizabeth; and graduated with highest honors in 1923. Teresa pursued her desire to enter the discalced Carmel, but was discouraged by superiors due to health concerns. She then considered a teaching order; and for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, she made a novena. At the novena's conclusion on December 8, Teresa decided she was called to enter the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth. She never received an official transfer of rite, and therefore remained a Byzantine Rite Catholic while serving as a religious Sister in a Roman Rite congregation. As a postulant and novice, Teresa taught at the Academy of St. Elizabeth in Convent Station during 1925-1926. 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 passing.Greater Perfection. 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 was operated on for appendicitis on May 6, 1927, and passed away on May 8, 1927. 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.

St. Victor()

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