Monday in the 6th Week of Easter
Mass Readings
First Reading – Acts 16:11-15
We set sail from Troas, making a straight run for Samothrace, and on the next day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, a leading city in that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony. We spent some time in that city. On the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the river where we thought there would be a place of prayer. We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there. One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying. After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my home,” and she prevailed on us.
Responsorial Psalm – Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b (R. see 4a)
R.The Lord takes delight in his people.
or:
R. Alleluia.
Sing to the LORD a new song
of praise in the assembly of the faithful.
Let Israel be glad in their maker,
let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. R.
Let them praise his name in the festive dance,
let them sing praise to him with timbrel and harp.
For the LORD loves his people,
and he adorns the lowly with victory. R.
Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy upon their couches.
Let the high praises of God be in their throats.
This is the glory of all his faithful. Alleluia. R.
Gospel – Jn 15:26—16:4a
Jesus said to His disciples: “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with e from the beginning. “I have told you this so that you may not fall away. They will expel you from the synagogues; in fact, the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think he is offering worship to God. They will do this because they have not known either the Father or Me. I have told you this so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you.”
Featured Saints
St. Isidore the farmer (†circa 1130). Farm labourer from Madrid who, together with his wife, Blessed Maria de la Cabeza, visited churches before beginning his daily work and showed great generosity toward the poor. Optional Memorial in US.
St. Rheticus, bishop (†fourth century). Governed the diocese of Autun, France with wisdom and the gift of preaching.
St. Kaleb or Elesbaan, monk. (†c. 535). Ethiopian king who, to avenge the martyrs of Najran, engaged in battle against the enemies of Christ. Later, after sending his royal diadem to Jerusalem, he entered the monastic life.
St. Rupert, hermit (†eighth century). As a young nobleman, he built churches in his dukedom of Bingen, Germany. After a pilgrimage to Rome, he decided to consecrate himself to God and lived as a hermit in the vicinity of Mainz, until surrendering his soul to the Lord at the age of twenty-one.
St. Witesind, martyr (†855). He died on the outskirts of Cordova, Spain, for refusing to participate in Muslim worship.
Blessed Andrew Abellon, priest (†1450). French Dominican religious, theology professor and painter. He restored monastic discipline in the convents in which he was superior.
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