Wednesday, May 17th., Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to St John 16,12-15.

Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

17 May 2023

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ

“Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told

you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 16,12-15.

Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.”

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Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

17 May 2023

Saint of the day

St. Joachina de Vedruna de Mas

Saint Joachina de Vedruna
                                                                        (16 April 1783 – 28 August 1854)

        St. Joachina was a Catalonian nun who founded the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity. She was born into a virtuous patrician family of deep faith. As a young girl, Joachina believed she wanted to be a nun. However, she married Theodore de Mas, a man from a royal family in Barcelona, Spain, in 1799, when she was only sixteen years old. They had nine children before Theodore was killed when Napoleon invaded Spain.

        After her husband’s passing in 1816, Joachina moved with her children to their estate in Vic. Here, she began her charitable activities with the sick and with young women. Her spiritual director, the Capuchin Esteban de Olot, suggested she establish an apostolic congregation devoted to education and charity.

        The Order cared for the sick, the poor and anyone in need of an education. They built houses for the homeless and started schools in poor areas. The bishop of Vic, Pablo Jesús Corcuera, told her the institute should be of Carmelite inspiration. The same bishop wrote the rule on February 6, 1826; and twenty days later, Joachina and another eight women professed their vows.

        Within the next few years, Joaquina’s Carmelites founded several houses in Catalonia. During the First Carlist War (a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1839), she had to flee the country because she had founded a hospital in the Carlist town of Berga that was threatened by the fighting. As a result, she went to Roussillon, France, where she stayed from 1836 to 1842.

        Joaquina’s apostolic congregation was definitively approved in 1850. In spite of serious challenges posed by civil war and secular opposition, the institute she founded soon spread throughout Catalonia. Thereafter, communities were established throughout Spain and Hispanic America. Eventually, she was forced to resign as superior of her order due to sickness.

        She passed away during a cholera epidemic in Barcelona, slowly succumbing to paralysis over the final four years of her life. By the time of her death in 1854 at the age of seventy-one, Joaquina was known and admired for her high degree of prayer, deep trust in God and selfless charity. She was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1940, and was canonized in 1959.

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by

Fr. Mark Miller, CSsR

Wednesday of the Sixth week of Easter

17 May 2023

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ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION

My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Blessed Sacrament.

I love You above all things and I desire You in my soul.

Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally,

Come at least spiritually into my heart.

As though You were already there,

I embrace You and unite myself wholly to You;

Permit not that I should ever be separated from You.

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LORD, FORGIVE THE WRONG I HAVE DONE. 

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You shall be my people, and I will be your God.

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Even though I walk in the dark valley

I fear no evil; for you are at my side 

with your rod and your staff 

that give me courage.

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LORD HAVE MERCY

Image: Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Sam Sen,  Bangkok, THAILAND.

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BE MERCIFUL, O LORD,  FOR WE HAVE SINNED. 

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FRANCIS XAVIER SAMSEN

HAPPY JESUS TO ALL 

FROM

FRANCIS XAVIER, SAMSEN

THAILAND

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