Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

Year of the Family "Amoris Laetitia The Joy of Love"

Saints: Pope Saint Pius V (1504-1572); Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672), Our Lady, Mother of Africa

Readings of the Day

Rule of Saint Benedict: Ch 72 The Good Zeal of Monks

Mass: Acts 6:1-7; Resp Ps 33; Jn 6:16-21

Of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.

MARY, QUEEN OF PEACE,

PRAY FOR US.

This is the good zeal which monks must foster with fervent love: They should each try to be the first to show respect to the other, supporting with the greatest patience one another's weaknesses of body or behavior, and earnestly competing in obedience to one another. No one is to pursue what he judges better for himself, but instead, what he judges better for someone else ...

Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and my He bring us all together to everlasting life.

(Rule of Saint Benedict, 72:3-7, 11-12)

Welcome to the last day of April 2022. Christ is risen, who made all things; He has shown mercy on all people. Alleluia.

You may recall that on Tuesday, "the community of believers was of one heart and mind" (Acts 4:32). Today, "as the number of disciples continued to grow" (Acts 6:1), we find the Hellenists complaining against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. However, the Twelve gathered the community of disciples and worked things out. They were about good zeal. Seven reputable men were chosen to serve at table, while the others devoted themselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word (Acts 6:3-4). So "the word of God continued to spread, and the number of disciples increased; even a large group of priests were becoming obedient to the faith" (Acts 6:7). May we be inspired to be about good zeal and work things out.

From Christ we take our name and are called Christians ...

What heart is so cold as not to be inflamed with love by the kindness and good will exercised toward us by so great a Lord who, though holding us in His power and dominion as slaves ransomed by His blood, yet embrace us with such ardent love as to call us not servants, but friends and brethren? This, assuredly, supplies the most just, and perhaps the strongest, claim to induce us always to acknowledge, venerate, and adore Him as Lord.

(The Catechism of the Council of Trent for Parish Priests, edited under Charles Borromeo, published by the decree of Pope Saint Pius V, 1566, Article II)

POPE SAINT PIUS V,

SAINT MARIE OF THE INCARNATION,

OUR LADY, MOTHER OF AFRICA,

PRAY FOR US.

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