Saturday in the 6th Week of Easter
Mass Readings
First Reading – Acts 18:23-28
After staying in Antioch some time, Paul left and traveled in orderly sequence through the Galatian country and Phrygia, bringing strength to all the disciples. A Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, an eloquent speaker, arrived in Ephesus. He was an authority on the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the Way of the Lord and, with ardent spirit, spoke and taught accurately about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue; but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the Way of God more accurately. And when he wanted to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. After his arrival he gave great assistance to those who had come to believe through grace. He vigorously refuted the Jews in public, establishing from the Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus.
Responsorial Psalm – 47:2-3, 8-9, 10 (R.8a)
R. God is king of all the earth.
or:
R. Alleluia.
All you peoples, clap your hands;
shout to God with cries of gladness.
For the LORD, the Most High, the awesome,
is the great king over all the earth. R.
For king of all the earth is God;
sing hymns of praise.
God reigns over the nations,
God sits upon his holy throne. R.
The princes of the peoples are gathered together
with the people of the God of Abraham.
For God’s are the guardians of the earth;
he is supreme. R.
Gospel – Jn 16:23b-28
Jesus said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
Featured Saints
St. Francis de Geronimo, priest (†1716). Italian Jesuit who was dedicated himself to preaching retreats and popular missions in Naples, Italy, and to the apostolate with the poor and abandoned.
St. Ignatius of Laconi, religious (†1781). Capuchin friar; he collected alms for the poor for forty years in Cagliari, Italy. He was instrumental in the conversion of many sinners.
St. Walter, priest (†1070). Superior of the monastery of Esterp, in Limoges, France; he shone for his meekness with his brothers and his charity toward the poor.
St. Mamertus, bishop (†c. 475). In a calamitous situation, he instituted the solemn triduum of litanies and rogations before the feast of the Ascension of Our Lord in Vienne, France.
St. Matthew Le Van Gam, martyr (†1847). decapitated during the Vietnamese religious persecution, for bringing missionaries to Vietnam in his boat.
Blesseds John Rochester and James Walworth, priest and martyrs (†1537). Carthusian religious. They were hanged at York and their bodies left exposed on the gibbet for three days, for refusing to accept Henry VIII as head of the Church in England.
St. Majolus, abbot (†994). Fourth abbot of Cluny Abbey, France. He founded and re formed many monasteries in France and Italy.
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