30 Apr – Sixth Week of Easter: Wednesday; Memorial for St. Pius V, pope, religious ___________________ Acts of the Apostles 17:15, 22 – 18:1 Paul’s escort took him as far as Athens, and went back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin Paul as soon as they could. Paul stood before the whole Council [...]
29 Apr – Sixth Week of Easter: Tuesday; Memorial for St. Catherine of Siena ___________________ Acts 16:22-34 The crowd of Philippians joined in and showed its hostility to Paul and Silas, so the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be flogged . They were given many lashes and then thrown into prison, and [...]
28 Apr – Sixth Week of Easter: Monday; Memorial for St. Peter Chanel, priest, religious ___________________ Acts 16:11-15 Sailing from Troas we made a straight run for Samothrace; the next day for Neapolos, and from there for Philippi, a Roman colony and the principal city of that particular district of Macedonia. After a few days [...]
27 Apr – Sixth Sunday of Easter The Spirit Of Truth We celebrate the coming of Christ’s Spirit of truth on the Church, the source of the Church’s proclamation of the Christian message to the world. – from the Sunday Missal ____________________ Acts of the Apostles 8:5-8, 14-17 Philip went to a Samaritan town and [...]
26 Apr – Fifth Week of Easter: Saturday ___________________ Acts 16:1-10 From Cilicia Paul went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra. Here there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer; but his father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium spoke well of Timothy, [...]
If you’re wondering about the readings for today and how they are actually for the fifth Friday of Easter instead of the readings for the Feast of St. Mark, that’s a mistake on my part. It slipped my mind that St Mark’s has its own readings so that error was passed down the Jean when [...]
24 Apr – Fifth Week of Easter: Thursday; Memorial for St Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyr ___________________ Acts 15:7-21 After the discussion had gone on a long time, Peter stood up and addressed the apostles and elders. ‘My brothers,’ he said ‘you know perfectly well that in the early days God made his choice among you: [...]
23 Apr – Fifth Week of Easter: Wednesday; Memorial for St George, martyr ____________ ______ Acts of the Apostles 15:1-6 Some men came down from Judaea and taught the brothers, “Unless you have yourselves been circumcised in the tradition of Moses you cannot be saved.” This led to disagreement, and after Paul and Barnabas had [...]
22 Apr – Fifth Week of Easter: Tuesday ____________ ______ Acts of the Apostles 14:19-28 Some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and turned the people against the apostles. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead. The disciples came crowding round him but, as they did so, he stood [...]
20 Apr – Fifth Week of Easter: Monday; Memorial for St Anselm, bishop, doctor of the Church ____________ ______ Acts 14:5-18 With the connivance of the authorities a move was made by pagans as well as Jews to make attacks on Paul and Barnabas and to stone them. When the apostles came to hear of [...]
