Mass Readings for third Wednesday of Easter, April 21, 2010

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  1. Reading 1

    Acts 8:1b-8 (the earliest history of the Church and part of the New Testament)

    There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem,
    and all were scattered
    throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria,
    except the Apostles.
    Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him.
    Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the Church;
    entering house after house and dragging out men and women,
    he handed them over for imprisonment.

    Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word.
    Thus Philip went down to the city of Samaria
    and proclaimed the Christ to them.
    With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip
    when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing.
    For unclean spirits, crying out in a loud voice,
    came out of many possessed people,
    and many paralyzed and crippled people were cured.
    There was great joy in that city.



  1. Responsorial Psalm: Ps 66:1-3a, 4-5, 6-7a in the Old Testament

    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

    Shout joyfully to God, all the earth,
    sing praise to the glory of his name;
    proclaim his glorious praise.
    Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!”
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

    “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you,
    sing praise to your name!”
    Come and see the works of God,
    his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

    He has changed the sea into dry land;
    through the river they passed on foot;
    therefore let us rejoice in him.
    He rules by his might forever.
    R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.





  1. Gospel: John 6: 35-40

    Jesus said to the crowds,
    “I am the bread of life;
    whoever comes to me will never hunger,
    and whoever believes in me will never thirst.
    But I told you that although you have seen me,
    you do not believe.
    Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,
    and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
    because I came down from heaven not to do my own will
    but the will of the one who sent me.
    And this is the will of the one who sent me,
    that I should not lose anything of what he gave me,
    but that I should raise it on the last day.
    For this is the will of my Father,
    that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him
    may have eternal life,
    and I shall raise him on the last day.”


  1. Saint Anselm

    Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Anselm: April 21

    Title of the Saint : Archbishop

    Date of Death: Saint Anselm died 1109


    The story and history of Saint Anselm.

    Anselm was a native of Piedmont. When a boy of fifteen, being forbidden to enter religion, he for a while lost his fervor, left his home, and went to various schools in France. At length his vocation revived, and he became a monk at Bec in Normandy. The fame of his sanctity in this cloister led William Rufus, when dangerously ill, to take him for his confessor, and to name him to the vacant see of Canterbury. Now began the strife of Anselm's life. With new health the king relapsed into his former sins, plundered the Church lands, scorned the archbishop's rebukes, and forbade him to go to Rome for the pallium. Anselm went, and returned only to enter into a more bitter strife with William's successor, Henry I. This sovereign claimed the right of investing prelates with the ring and crozier, symbols of the spiritual jurisdiction which belongs to the Church alone.

    The worldly prelates did not scruple to call St. Anselm a traitor for his defence of the Pope's supremacy; on which the Saint rose, and with calm dignity exclaimed, "If any man pretends that I violate my faith to my king because I will not reject the authority of the Holy See of Rome, let him stand forth, and in the name of God I will answer him as I ought" No one took up the challenge; and to the disappointment of the king, the barons sided with the Saint, for they respected his courage, and saw that his cause was their own. Sooner than yield, the archbishop went again into exile, till at last the king was obliged to submit to the feeble but inflexible old man. In the midst of his harassing cares, St. Anselm found time for writings which have made him celebrated as the father of scholastic theology; while in metaphysics and in science he had few equals. He is yet more famous for his devotion to our blessed Lady, whose Feast of the Immaculate Conception he was the first to establish in the West. He died in 1109.

    Feast Day of Saint Anselm
    The Feast Day of Saint Anselm is April 21. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven.






Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX