Thursday of the Third week of Easter

Acts of the Apostles

The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, "Get up and head south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, the desert route."
So he got up and set out. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, that is, the queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury, who had come to Jerusalem to worship,
and was returning home. Seated in his chariot, he was reading the prophet Isaiah.
The Spirit said to Philip, "Go and join up with that chariot."
Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"
He replied, "How can I, unless someone instructs me?" So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.
This was the scripture passage he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
In (his) humiliation justice was denied him. Who will tell of his posterity? For his life is taken from the earth."
Then the eunuch said to Philip in reply, "I beg you, about whom is the prophet saying this? About himself, or about someone else?"
Then Philip opened his mouth and, beginning with this scripture passage, he proclaimed Jesus to him.
As they traveled along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Look, there is water. What is to prevent my being baptized?"
Then he ordered the chariot to stop, and Philip and the eunuch both went down into the water, and he baptized him.
When they came out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, but continued on his way rejoicing.
Philip came to Azotus, and went about proclaiming the good news to all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

Psalms

Bless our God, you peoples,
loudly sound his praise;
He has given life to our souls,
and has not let our feet slip.
Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare
what he has done for me.
When I appealed to him in words,
praise was on the tip of my tongue.
Blessed be God who refused me not
my prayer or his kindness!

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John

Jesus said to the crowds: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets: 'They shall all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world."

Bl. Teresa Demjanovich(Religious (1901-1927))

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 her beatification 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 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, so she attended the College of St. Elizabeth. Shr graduated with highest honors in 1923, and soon after 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, Teresa decided 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 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 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 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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