Catholic Missal of the day: Friday, May 8 2026

Friday of the Fifth week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

The apostles and presbyters, in agreement with the whole church, decided to choose representatives and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. The ones chosen were Judas, who was called Barsabbas, and Silas, leaders among the brothers.
This is the letter delivered by them: "The apostles and the presbyters, your brothers, to the brothers in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia of Gentile origin: greetings.
Since we have heard that some of our number (who went out) without any mandate from us have upset you with their teachings and disturbed your peace of mind,
we have with one accord decided to choose representatives and to send them to you along with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
who have dedicated their lives to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So we are sending Judas and Silas who will also convey this same message by word of mouth:
'It is the decision of the holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities,
namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell.'"
And so they were sent on their journey. Upon their arrival in Antioch they called the assembly together and delivered the letter.
When the people read it, they were delighted with the exhortation.

Psalms

My heart is steadfast, O God; my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and chant praise.
Awake, O my soul; awake, lyre and harp!
I will wake the dawn.
I will give thanks to you among the peoples, O LORD,
I will chant your praise among the nations.
For your mercy towers to the heavens,
and your faithfulness to the skies.
Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
above all the earth be your glory!

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to his disciples: "This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.
No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.
This I command you: love one another."

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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