THIRD SUNDAY AFTER EASTER; APPARITION OF SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL (492 A.D.)
Jesus Himself has a limited pilgrimage on earth. Like Him, we are all travelers. Everything is impermanent except heaven. Our happiness and security exist only in loyalty to Christ and to our fellow pilgrims, and in obedience to Christ's representatives. Anyone who attempts to limp sorrowfully and independently along, courts spiritual and eternal disaster. Both sorrow and joy are parts of life, to be taken in stride and consecrated to God. Dedicated grief purifies and redeems. Joy is the overflow of deep, spiritual wellbeing, the mark of the fully developed Christian, the music of virtue, the chant of wise pilgrims pressing homeward to God.
INTROIT Ps. 65:1-2
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth, alleluia, alleluia! Sing a psalm to the glory of His name, Alleluia, Proclaim His glorious praise, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Ps. 65:3. Say to God, "How tremendous are your deeds, O Lord! because of Your great strength Your enemies cringe before You."
V. Glory be . . .
COLLECT
Show us the light of Your truth, O God, which guides the sinner back to the path of justice. Let those who profess to be Christians avoid whatever will endanger their faith, and follow those things which will help it. Through Our Lord . . .
EPISTLE I Peter 2:11-19.
Dearly
beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain
yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul, Having your
conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against
you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in
you, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Be
ye subject therefore to every human creature for God's sake: whether it
be to the king as excelling, Or to governors as sent by him for the
punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. For so is the
will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of
foolish men: As free and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but
as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
Honour the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not
only to the good and gentle but also to the forward. For this is
thankworthy: if, for conscience towards God, a man endure sorrows,
suffering wrongfully.
Alleluia, alleluia! V. Ps. 110:9
The Lord has sent deliverance to His people. Alleluia!
V. Luke 24:26. Thus Christ should suffer and should rise again from the dead and should enter into His glory. Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 16:16-22.
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: "A little while, and now you shall not see Me: and again a little while, and you shall see Me: because I go to the Father." Then
some of his disciples said one to another: "What is this that he saith
to us: A little while, and you shall not see me: and again a little
while, and you shall see me, and, Because I go to the Father?" They said
therefore: "What is this that he saith, A little while? We know not
what he speaketh."
And Jesus knew that they had a mind to ask him. And he said to them: "Of
this do you inquire among yourselves, because I said: A little while,
and you shall not see Me; and again a little while, and you shall see
Me? Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the
world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow
shall be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow,
because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she
remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the
world. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and
your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you."
OFFERTORY ANTIPHON Ps. 145:2
Praise the Lord, O my soul; I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I live, alleluia!
SECRET
May
this sacred rite help us to overcome our earthly desires, O Lord, and
teach us to love the things of heaven. Through Our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
O
Lord, let this saving victim that we offer on the feast of blessed
Catherine come before You with our prayers, breathing the fragrance of
spotless purity. Through Our Lord . . .
COMMUNION ANTIPHON John 16:16
A
little while and you shall see Me no longer, alleluia! and again a
little while and you shall see Me, because I go to the Father, alleluia,
alleluia!
POSTCOMMUNION
O Lord, may the Sacrament which we have received strengthen us in spirit and comfort us in body. Through Our Lord . . .
Commemoration of SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
O Lord, confer eternal life on us through the Food we have eaten at Your heavenly banquet, from which the blessed virgin Catherine drew support even for her earthly life. Through Our Lord . . .
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