31 May – Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary This day is called the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary because on it Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth, whom, as the angel had told her, God had blessed with a son in her old age. – Patron Saint Index _____________________ Romans 12:9-16 [...]
30 May _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 16:11-15 Sailing from Troas we made a straight run for Samothrace; the next day for Neapolis, and from there for Philippi, a Roman colony and the principal city of that particular district of Macedonia. After a few days in this city we went along the river outside the [...]
29 May – 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. – The Sunday Missal _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 8:5-8.14-17 Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the [...]
28 May _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 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, and Paul, who [...]
27 May – Memorial for St Augustine of Cantebury, Bishop Augustine (d. 605) was a monk and abbot of St. Andrew’s abbey in Rome. He was sent by Pope Gregory the Great with 40 brother monks, including St. Lawrence of Canterbury to evangelize the British Isles in 597. Before he reached the islands, terrifying tales [...]
26 May _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 15:7-21 After the discussion had gone on a long time, Peter stood up and addressed the apostles and the elders. ‘My brothers,’ he said ‘you know perfectly well that in the early days God made his choice among you: the pagans were to learn the Good News from [...]
25 May – Memorial for St Bede the Venerable, Priest & Doctor of the Church; Memorial for St Gregory VII, Pope; Memorial for St Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi, Virgin Bede (672-735) was born around the time England was finally completely Christianized. He was raised from age seven in the abbey of Sts. Peter and Paul [...]
24 May _____________________ 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 up and went back to the town. [...]
23 May _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 14:5-18 Eventually with the connivance of the authorities a move was made by pagans as well as Jews to make attacks on the apostles and to stone them. When the apostles came to hear of this, they went off for safety to Lycaonia where, in the towns of [...]
22 May – Fifth Sunday of Easter The Spirit Of Truth We celebrate the coming of Christ’s Spirit of truth on the Church, the source of the Churchs proclamation of the Chistian message to the world. – The Sunday Missal _____________________ Acts of the Apostles 6:1-7 About this time, when the number of disciples was [...]
